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Not long after, Dr Lee came up with this clarification AND burned Chee Soon Juan at the same time.
TODAY: Dr Lee Wei Ling denies signing petition supporting Chee, says he is not fit to be in Parliament
Published: 12:43 PM, May 5, 2016
Updated: 3:16 PM, May 5, 2016
SINGAPORE — Dr Lee Wei Ling, the sister of Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong, has denied signing a petition asking for an end to attacks on the character of Dr Chee Soon Juan, the Singapore Democratic Party chief contesting this Saturday's (May 7) Bukit Batok by-election.
In a Facebook post on Thursday morning, Dr Lee wrote: "It has been said that I have signed a petition asking to stop attacking Chee Soon Juan's character. This is false, I have a very poor opinion of Dr Chee, and do not think he is fit to be in Parliament....I will never support such a person."
She did not specify which petition she had been falsely linked with.
Local actress Neo Swee Lin, who spoke at an SDP rally on Tuesday, had started a online petition on the website Change.org that same day calling for a stop to what they deemed "personal attacks and character assassination" against Dr Chee. The initial petition letter had 34 signatories, and has since gained over 4,000 online supporters.
Among those who left comments on Ms Neo's online petition was one supporter who signed off as "Dr Lee Wei Ling" and wrote: "(US) First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt said this: Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people."
In a separate post about two hours later, Dr Lee explained why she spoke out. “My Facebook has not been hacked. My name has been misused, so I needed to publicly announce my view of (Dr Chee),” she wrote.
Dr Lee's denial marks at least the third time in the Bukit Batok by-election where an online allegation has been posted, only to be exposed as untruths.
On Wednesday, the PAP issued a statement debunking an article posted by local website All Singapore Stuff with the headline “PAP entourage say ‘Indians should support Indians’”. "We have checked and confirmed that the incident is fictitious. Playing the race card is irresponsible," the PAP statement added.
On Tuesday, the PAP debunked a Facebook post by a user Ridhuan Abdullah, who claimed that a party volunteer had made disparaging remarks about Dr Chee to him. The PAP said the alleged incident was "fictitious" after checks were conducted with its volunteers.
Aside from setting the record straight, Dr Lee also criticised Dr Chee for "pretend(ing) to be magnanimous" by saying he would not attack former Bukit Batok Member of Parliament David Ong despite the fact that his own party members had taken to the stage at a rally last week to do just that.
"What do you say about such a man? And having made character attacks, when this is pointed out, he then played the martyr, saying his character is being attacked," wrote Dr Lee. "Why does he not deal with facts? Why did he in the first place agree to his speakers attacking David Ong's character, while pretending to be above it all?"
Dr Chee has said he would put a stop to any attacks by his party members on Mr Ong, who resigned abruptly due to an alleged extramarital affair. The SDP chief added that he would not get into any "mudslinging" with the PAP and his rival candidate Murali Pillai, and would instead focus on the issues that concern Bukit Batok residents.
At a rally on Sunday, Dr Chee said he had “ample opportunity” to use recent comments by Dr Lee for political gains, but chose not to do so. In a series of Facebook posts recently, Dr Lee had sharply criticised the recent commemoration of late founding Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew’s death, as well as the handling of the event by her brother, PM Lee.
Dr Chee said he did not want to attack PM Lee “on such a personal level”, adding: “That’s not the kind of politics I want to engage in, and even though I did not attack Mr Lee, he has no hesitation in continuing to disparage me. Imagine if it had been my sister saying these things about me, what do you think would have happened?”
Dr Lee did not respond directly to Dr Chee's comments on this issue. She wrote that Dr Chee's "true nature should be fully exposed- cheating NUS, telling untruths all his life, slippery" - a reference to his dismissal from the National University of Singapore in 1993 for misusing research funds.
"Singaporeans should decide whether such a person should be in Parliament. Is it possible that he has truly reformed?!" wrote Dr Lee.
Source: TODAY - Dr Lee Wei Ling denies signing petition supporting Chee, says he is not fit to be in Parliament
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