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Sub Category - Government |
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Longest Speech In Parliament |
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Government & Society - Government |
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On 20 to 21 Nov 1961, Dr Lee Siew Choh, leader of the Barisan Socialis spoke for seven and a half hours during the debate on Singapore’s proposed merger with Malaysia. His marathon speech, which was broken up by several tea breaks, went from 2.30 pm to 8.00 pm on the first day and from 3.00 pm to 7.00 pm on the second day. In another sitting in 1963, Dr Lee spoke continuously for almost six hours from 11.30 pm to 6.00 am the next morning on ‘the torture in prison experienced by his arrested party members’. |
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