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Singapore’s ruling PAP turns 70: can its dominance continue?
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Singapore’s ruling PAP turns 70: can its dominance continue?

For retired educator KH Seah, voting was always a simple choice. SingaporeThe ruling People’s Action Party (PAP).

But the 67-year-old actor finds himself rethinking his decision lately.

“I feel the rising cost of everything. “I am from the middle class, but I do not feel the benefits,” Seah said, adding that the increase in the goods and services tax to 9 percent earlier this year, as well as the increasing prices of authorization certificates to own a vehicle, have affected people. I love him so much.

Seah said with a touch of nostalgia that he missed the founding prime minister’s determination Lee Kuan Yewcontrasts with the current leadership’s more consultative approach.

Whether Seah’s views reflect a disgruntled minority among PAP supporters or point to a growing trend will be revealed in the next general election, due by November next year.

No single political force has emerged to challenge the PAP in Singapore

Bilveer Singh, political scientist
This will mark the 16th time the party has requested a mandate from the island republic’s citizens since Singapore’s uninterrupted rule began in 1959. On Thursday, the PAP will celebrate its 70th anniversary, a milestone that could coincide with the transfer of party leadership. from the current general secretary Lee Hsien Loong with Lawrence Wongacting as prime minister in may.