GEORGE TOWN: Penang Chief Minister Lim Guan Eng and his wife Betty Chew have appeared for the first time together - four days after news of his alleged affair with a former female senior staff member was highlighted in the media.
Lim, who had earlier held a press conference on an unrelated matter, said Chew had just arrived from Malacca and was joining him for lunch.
Dressed in a colourful blouse and black slacks, Chew looked calm but did not maintain eye contact with the media when she was asked by Lim to sit in the press conference.
She left immediately after the press conference.
When asked to comment on the matter yesterday, Lim said he would issue statements so that he would not be “misquoted”.
It was reported that Chew had allegedly assaulted Lim's former staff member because of an alleged relationship between the two.
On Monday, Malacca MCA chief Datuk Gan Tian Loo, who brought up the matter at the Malacca State Assembly sitting, had asked Chew to “enlighten” the assembly on the transfer of the woman who had previously served with the Penang Chief Minister's office.
Lim had since denied allegations of the relationship and challenged Gan to repeat the allegations publicly so he could take legal actions.
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