Sunday Times: Low Thia Khiang: It's an innocent mistake

ELECTION '06

AT A Workers' Party rally in Nee Soon East last night, party chief Low Thia Khiang accused the People's Action Party of making a "mountain out of a molehill" over his colleague James Gomez's missing form episode.

The Sunday Times interviewed him briefly after that:

Q Why has it taken your party so long to come out and talk about this issue?

A Because to us it is not really an issue. I suppose it is something administrative, and we want to move on from there.

Q Do you think it has affected your team's chances?

A I don't think so.

Q Did you investigate what happened?

A I've spoken to Gomez, of course, to understand what it is about, how it happened and I'm satisfied. He's not actually trying to be funny or doing it on purpose.

Q Second time it has happened to James Gomez?* (In Mandarin)

A Different issue altogether.

Q This honesty issue - how will you deal with it? (In Mandarin)

A It's not an honesty issue. This is something that happened during a busy period and it was an innocent mistake. It's not an issue about honesty.

*In 2001, Mr Gomez was in the WP's Aljunied GRC team that was disqualified as it did not complete its statutory declaration forms.