JULY 19 — For the first time in its history, Singapore has an official leader of the Opposition. That may seem odd as we have had regular elections on the basis of a parliamentary system since independence in 1965, but this is the first year an opposition party has won sufficient seats...
Surekha A. YadavThat may seem odd as we have had regular elections on the basis of a parliamentary system since independence in 1965, but this is the first year an opposition party has won sufficient seats in parliament for the government to consider naming an official leader of the Opposition.
While Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong announced that the WP leader would be officially designated leader of the Opposition, we still don’t really know what this will mean. Now of course for Singapore, a Shadow Cabinet is probably a bit of a stretch given that there are only 10 opposition MPs — all of them from the WP but it is encouraging the government is embracing the Opposition’s role.
Now with 10 MPs out of 103, government may yet be some time away but the WP does have to give the matter some serious thought. How would Singapore under a WP government really differ from Singapore under the PAP? In some respects, the WP manifesto had it all — from macro perspectives on strengthening Asean to micro initiatives like community cafes on the ground floors of public housing blocks.
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