Voters cast their ballots today in a vote closely watched as a sign of support for the ruling party.
Frontrunner Tharman Shanmugaratnam is widely perceived as having the backing of the People’s Action Party government.
While the presidency is a non-partisan post under the constitution, political lines were already drawn ahead of the election to replace incumbent Halimah Yacob, who ran unopposed for her six-year term in 2017. The frontrunner is former deputy prime minister and finance minister Tharman Shanmugaratnam, a long-time PAP stalwart before he resigned ahead of his candidacy.
The third candidate, Ng Kok Song, 75, is the former chief investment officer of Singapore sovereign wealth fund GIC, which manages the country’s foreign reserves. The PAP was recently rocked by political scandals, a rarity in the city which has capitalised on its reputation as a clean government to become an international hub for an array of industries, like finance and aviation.
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