Having been criticized as an authoritarian leader intolerant of dissent, Lee said the Singapore government was not preventing political competition.'What we are preventing is duds getting into parliament and government. Any person of quality, we welcome him, but we don't want duds,' he said.
'We don't want Chee Soon Juan and JB Jeyaretnam,' Lee said, disgrading two prominent opposition politicians. Full story
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