Reform Party (Singapore)
| Abbreviation | RP |
|---|---|
| Chairman | Vacant |
| Secretary-General | Kenneth Jeyaretnam |
| Founder | Joshua Benjamin Jeyaretnam |
| Founded | 3 July 2008 |
| Split from | Workers Party |
| Headquarters | 18A Smith Street Singapore 058932 |
| Newspaper | The New Dawn |
| Youth wing | Young Reformers |
| Ideology | Green politics |
| National affiliation | People's Alliance for Reform |
| Colours | Yellow |
| Parliament | 0 / 104
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| Website | |
| reform.sg | |
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The Reform Party (RP) is a political party in Singapore. According to its constitution, the party seeks to promote "political, social and economic reform; restoration of full human rights; a fairer and just distribution of wealth with the elimination of poverty; an independently appointed judiciary; and a fully elected and sovereign parliament". Its philosophy states that "That every member of the society is born with fundamental rights which cannot be abrogated... and that it is the paramount duty of the society to promote the human dignity of its every single member." Since 2020, the party has embarked on a green manifesto.
RP was founded by opposition veteran and lawyer J. B. Jeyaretnam, former Secretary-General of the Workers' Party (WP) and the first opposition candidate in post-independence Singapore, on 3 July 2008. Around three months after the party's foundation, J.B. Jeyaretnam died on 30 September, and the leadership was taken over by his son, Kenneth Jeyaretnam.