Ho Peng Kee retires from politics after 4 terms
Ho Peng Kee, Senior Minister of State for Law and Home Affairs and associate professor at the National University of Singapore (NUS), has announced his retirement from politics.
The decision to retire was made some time last year when Associate Professor Ho informed Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong.
Having taught at NUS' Faculty of Law, he hopes to return to teaching part-time in the future.
Associate Professor Ho was one of the initiators of the Prisons-Singapore Corporation of Rehabilitative Enterprise (SCORE) that helps ex-prisoners reintegrate into the society to be productive citizens.
In his retirement, Associate Professor Ho said he would be more active in Church as an elder, Channel News Asia reported.
Every election, the ruling People's Action Party (PAP) retires about a-third of its Members of Parliament (MPs). Associate Professor Ho's decision to retire comes after the announcement of Senior Minister S. Jayakumar and Speaker of Parliament Abdullah Tarmugi's retirement from politics.
Associate Professor Ho is currently serving as an MP for Nee Soon East single member constituency (SMC).The SMC is the largest SMC in Singapore with over 32,000 voters. He would have served for four terms by the end of this term.
Previously, Nee Soon East SMC was contested by the Worker's Party's Poh Lee Guan. He received 31.3% of votes in the 2006 election. Associate Professor Ho's successor has not been announced by the PAP.
The SMC has been integrated into Nee Soon group representation constituency since the electoral boundaries have been redrawn this year.
