This was the best-ever performance by an opposition party in Singapore
hours after Singapore’s election on July 10th hundreds of supporters of the Workers’ Party , the main opposition outfit, streamed onto the streets to celebrate, in defiance of the city-state’s strict social-distancing rules. One would have been forgiven for thinking that thehad won the election. In fact it took a trifling ten seats out of 93.
The greatest embarrassment of the night befell Heng Swee Keat, the anointed successor to the current prime minister, Lee Hsien Loong, who has said he will retire by his 70th birthday, in early 2022. Theslate headed by Mr Heng won its multi-member “group representation constituency” with just 53% of the vote. Because he is the leader of the generation ofofficials poised to take charge, who have been managing the response to covid-19, the result augurs badly for the party.
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