SINGAPORE, May 15 — Singapore will swear in Lawrence Wong today as the city-state’s new prime minister, as Lee Hsien Loong steps down after two decades in office. Wong,...
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Wong, formerly deputy prime minister, will become the second non-member of the Lee family to lead the affluent nation when he is inaugurated at 8.00pm local time. Wong, who was also finance minister, had been selected as Lee’s heir-apparent in 2022 from a new generation of lawmakers from the People’s Action Party which has ruled uninterrupted since independence in 1965.
In the previous election in 2020, the opposition showed its strongest performance since independence but hardly made a dent in parliament as 83 out of the 93 seats were won by the PAP.
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