Reuters - India
18 Apr 2008
SINGAPORE (Reuters) - The return of a veteran political leader in Singapore has led to talk of unity among fragmented opposition parties, but analysts on Friday dismissed hopes of major change in the city-state dominated by one party.
Eighty-two-year-old lawyer J.B Jeyaretnam, the first opposition member to break the ruling elite's grip on parliament 27 years ago, said his new Reform Party would challenge the "fundamentals" of the system and promised a party based on human and political rights.
"We in Singapore are denied the rights to speak up, to tell the government to change course," said Jeyaretnam at a press conference on Friday.
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