Lee Kuan Yew’s Son Faces a Changing and Demanding Singapore

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http://www.wsj.com/articles/lee-kuan-yews-son-faces-a-changing-singapore-1427447170

Mr. Lee is widely expected to maintain much of the political model put in place by his father—clean and efficient government, business, friendly economic policies, and an emphasis on maintaining social order.

But the younger Mr. Lee has also been recalibrating some long-standing policies of his ruling People’s Action Party, part of efforts to shore up support ahead of a potentially bruising general election due by January 2017, his third poll as leader after seeing his ruling party’s vote share decline in two consecutive elections.

But in recent years, the rapid pace of development in Singapore has created a groundswell of discontent among locals, who lament widening income inequality, rising housing and transport costs, and an influx of foreign labor. The city-state’s Gini coefficient, a measure of inequality, is 0.463 (zero is perfect equality), compared with an average of 0.31 for countries in the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development in the latest available figures

The younger Mr. Lee has begun to tackle these issues, but officials and analysts have said these measures take time to bear fruit, and it isn’t clear if they would prove sufficient to arrest the partial erosion of support for the ruling party. It won around 60% of the popular vote in the 2011 election, although it won 81 of 87 seats in Parliament, now 80 after a by-election loss in 2013.

Ms. Lim, of the University of Michigan, said that in the next general election, she expects a dwindling majority of mostly older Singaporeans to vote in favor of the PAP’s past record, while she believes many younger Singaporeans will choose the opposition “because, unlike their parents and grandparents under Lee Kuan Yew, they don’t see their own futures getting a whole lot better.”

enterprise2 · Mar 29, 2015

U simply cannot have a situation where u only got 60% of the votes and 90+% of the house. Something is def wrong here!!

laksaboy · Mar 29, 2015

enterprise2 said:
U simply cannot have a situation where u only got 60% of the votes and 90+% of the house. Something is def wrong here!!

First past the post (winner takes all) vs proportional representation. Which do you think the PAP prefers? :wink:

enterprise2 · Mar 29, 2015

laksaboy said:
First past the post (winner takes all) vs proportional representation. Which do you think the PAP prefers?

Old man may heck care but in today context, PAP knows that this cannot be acceptable anymore!

laksaboy · Mar 29, 2015

This is the type of journalism that SPH and Mediacorp should be doing. Instead, they prefer to role play as the PAP's cheerleaders.

Never forget that LKY destroyed free press and forcibly closed many independent newspapers. This is one of his real legacies: a damaging and long-lasting one.

steffychun · Mar 29, 2015

laksaboy said:
First past the post (winner takes all) vs proportional representation. Which do you think the PAP prefers?

you get a skewed vote in the UK as well.

JohnTan · Mar 29, 2015

laksaboy said:
This is the type of journalism that SPH and Mediacorp should be doing. Instead, they prefer to role play as the PAP's cheerleaders.

Never forget that LKY destroyed free press and forcibly closed many independent newspapers. This is one of his real legacies: a damaging and long-lasting one.

I believe LKY did so with the blessings of the Old Guard.

mojito · Mar 29, 2015

Silly young people. Of course life is not getting better when we stop immigrants from coming. Only with more people will gdp be higher and higher, THEN life will get better and better. Stop listening to opposition liars and oppose things that are good for you!

winnipegjets · Mar 29, 2015

enterprise2 said:
U simply cannot have a situation where u only got 60% of the votes and 90+% of the house. Something is def wrong here!!

That's why First-Past-The-Post is not a viable electoral system. Proportional Representation is the way to go.

winnipegjets · Mar 29, 2015

JohnTan said:
I believe LKY did so with the blessings of the Old Guard.

No shared responsibility here ...it is just Old Fart's.

winnipegjets · Mar 29, 2015

mojito said:
Silly young people. Of course life is not getting better when we stop immigrants from coming. Only with more people will gdp be higher and higher, THEN life will get better and better. Stop listening to opposition liars and oppose things that are good for you!

We have 2.9 million foreigners now ...is life better? Do you want a population of 99 percent foreigners?

laksaboy · Mar 29, 2015

winnipegjets said:
We have 2.9 million foreigners now ...is life better? Do you want a population of 99 percent foreigners?

Well, at least we have Pinoy broads paying their respects to LKY. :biggrin:

The receipts from sales of flowers and t-shirts... surely that boosts the GDP, no?

Hence we must stay open to foreigners. :wink:

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