Five Takeaways From PAP’s Singapore Election Victory: TOPLive

In a third victory for incumbent political parties in a week, Singapore’s People’s Action Party won a supermajority in Saturday’s election, delivering a strong mandate for Lawrence Wong in his first election as prime minister.

• The PAP, which has ruled Singapore since before independence in 1965, has won 87 of 97 seats and boosted its margin to 65.57%. That’s well above its winning margin of around 61% during the pandemic in 2020.
• The result came despite opposition parties’ efforts to capitalize on widespread disquiet over the cost of living and housing prices. Wong, who is also finance minister, argued the ...