Will AIM saga be aired during Punggol East by-election?

Workers' Party (WP) Chairman Sylvia Lim withdrew an adjournment motion on safeguarding public interest in the management of town councils on Thursday, which she had filed with regard to the PAP town councils’ controversial sale of management software to a PAP-owned company, Action Information Management (AIM). Describing the withdrawal as “a pre-emptive move” by the WP, SMU Assistant Professor of Law Eugene Tan said that it “prevents a tentative closure on the issue…If the adjournment goes on this coming Monday, and the Government gives its reply, there’s a chance that they could take away a lot of the unanswered questions... It keeps this issue very alive and it also means that the WP can leverage on it during the hustlings.” He added that while the WP will have the biggest claim on the issue, other opposition parties will also use it as leverage to press home the necessity of a multi-party Parliament in order for the “PAP government to be held in check”.