After a poor election showing three months ago, a split has become evident in the PAP rank-and-file between the younger and older generation on how far and fast reforms should proceed.
AN internal rift in the powerful People’s Action Party (PAP), which has governed Singapore for 46 years, isn’t the sort of news one often gets to read about here.
That it surfaced last week – three months after founding leader Lee Kuan Yew left the Cabinet – caused much speculation among citizens, and with party representatives hurrying to deny it.
The informant was not some flippant source but a respectable former party stalwart, Dr Tan Cheng Bock, who recently quit the party to contest in the presidential election. Full story
