Chee Soon Juan, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Chee Soon Juan

Singaporean politician

Date of Birth: 20-Jul-1962

Place of Birth: Singapore

Profession: politician

Nationality: Singapore

Zodiac Sign: Cancer

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Chee Soon Juan (Chinese: ???; pinyin: Xú Shùnquán, born 20 July 1962) is a Singaporean politician and the current leader of the Singapore Democratic Party (SDP). Holding a PhD in neuropsychology, Chee started out as a lecturer at the National University of Singapore (NUS) before entering politics in 1992 after Chiam See Tong recruited him to join the SDP.
He succeeded Chiam as the party's Secretary-General after Chiam, whom Chee and the rest of the party's leadership have had a number of disagreements, left the SDP.
The party had three Members of Parliament (MPs) at the time Chee took over as Secretary-General, but was reduced to no MPs at the 1997 general election and has not had any of its members elected to Parliament since then. Chee has been arrested and jailed several times for his political activities, mainly for making speeches and staging public demonstrations without a police permit.
He has also been found guilty of defamation on multiple occasions for comments he has made about members of Singapore's governing People's Action Party (PAP).
He was previously barred from standing in parliamentary elections because he was declared bankrupt in 2006 after failing to pay damages from a lawsuit owed to two former prime ministers, Lee Kuan Yew and Goh Chok Tong.
On 24 September 2012, Chee announced that he had raised the sum of $30,000 needed to pay Lee and Goh.
His bankruptcy has since been discharged, which enabled him to contest the 2015 Singaporean general election.