In sweeping changes proposed for next month, the tiny city-state’s dominant political party, the Peoples’ Action Party (PAP), is proposing amendments to the country’s constitution that will dramatically increase the number of opposition parliamentarians in its legislation.The new changes according to Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong carried by a Straits Times news report is to, “generate more robust debate, improve policy formulation, expose PAP MPs’ to the cut and thrust of the debate and demonstrate what the opposition can and cannot do”.
It is soon to cheer because as political watchers would be wont to concur, the analogy of the PAP dominated government allowing for a Singaporean version of the British soap box in a perceived exercise of free speech in 2002 came with various impediments. Full Story
