What premier-in-waiting Wong means for Singapore

On April 14, the ruling People’s Action Party (PAP) endorsed Singapore’s finance minister Lawrence Wong as leader of its fourth-generation (4G) team, putting him in line to become the city-state’s next prime minister. Observers took former minister and ex-PAP chairman Khaw Boon Wan’s admission that the vote was not unanimous as uncommonly transparent by PAP standards.

“The PAP is a cadre party. What it means is that the selection process is very self-contained and it’s very thorough, and leaders are selected and not elected. Therefore, most of the members of the party are ideologically aligned to one another,” said Walid Jumblatt Abdullah, an assistant professor at Singapore’s NTU.

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