The Malaysian Insider, 15 Sep 2011SEPT 15 — Recently, Singapore Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong announced that the People’s Action Party (PAP) needed to reform its politics and “engage with the young”.
Indeed, the rules of the political game have changed and much of the PAP’s political capital, earned through decades of hard work enabling our leap to developed world status, is now losing its allure to a significant proportion of the electorate. Priorities have shifted and competence in generating economic growth cannot address the concerns that most Singaporeans have regarding the “intangibles”, such as quality of life and social mobility. Full story
