SINGAPORE: This republic's most prominent opposition figure, J.B. Jeyaretnam, said yesterday he had lost an appeal to discharge a bankruptcy ruling that bars him from standing in the next general election.
The failure of the appeal means Jeyaretnam, 78, the first opposition politician to break the People's Action Party's (PAP's) parliamentary monopoly when he won a seat in 1981, would miss the next elections scheduled to be held by 2007.
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