PAP flows into the victory as Singapore vote for stability

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The Singapore People’s Action Party won its 16th consecutive election on Saturday, increasing its part of the popular vote as voters in the country dependent on stability in the face of increasing geopolitical tensions.

The PAP, the winning streak dating back to 1959, when Singapore was a British colony, won 87 of the 97 seats in results that were announced in the early hours of Sunday morning, including five unconnected seats.

Under the Prime Minister Lawrence WongIt was raised on paper a year ago, the party received 66 percent of the popular vote, more than 61 percent in the last election in 2020 and its maximum margin of victory for a decade.

This year’s election settled Against the backdrop Of a growing world trade war, caused by a package of rates announced by the President of the United States, Donald Trump, a month ago.

With Singapore Global Commerce equivalent to more than three times its GDP, the financial and commercial center, which plays a crucial role in the exchange of goods and services between China and the West, is especially vulnerable to a fall in world trade.

“The results will put Singapore in a better position to deal with this turbulent world,” Wong said during a speech at 3 am in which he called the election a “clear sign of trust, stability and confidence.”

The election was considered a crucial test for 52-year-old Wong and the PAP, as it looks a future beyond the Lee Dynasty, which has dominated Singapore’s politics over the last seven decades and oversees the transformation of the city-state-out of a developing nation in one of the richest in the world.

Wong took over Lee Hsien Loong, son of the modern founder of the country, Lee Kuan Yew. Lee Hsien Loong, who has a role of influential advice within the government, had run the country for 20 years.

As with the recent election in Canada and Australia, the headlines worked well in the face of geopolitical assembly uncertainty.

Singapore has cut off his Growth forecast During the year of 1 to 3 % to 0-2 percent on the perspective of an interruption in world trade and warned of a possible recession.

The Secretary of State of the United States, Marco Rubio, congratulated Wong and the PAP on his victory, adding: “For almost 60 years, the United States and Singapore have shared a strong and lasting strategic association and a commitment to a safe, free and prosperous Indo-Pacific region.”

The Workers’ Party, the main opposition group, won 10 seats as it did five years ago, but will receive two so -called seats not from the constitution due to the proximity of the PAP in some constituencies.

Pritam Singh, leader of the Workers’ Party, acknowledged that it had been a hard campaign, before it had been found guilty to lie in Parliament in a case.

“The board is cleaned, we start working again tomorrow and we go again,” he said.