In today’s briefing:
- Singapore: Succession Uncertainty Lifted, What Is Next?
Singapore: Succession Uncertainty Lifted, What Is Next?
- Lawrence Wong is slated to be the next PM. One cannot help but get a sense that the succession process was not as smooth as it might have been.
- In the upcoming cabinet reshuffle, Wong is likely to be elevated to the deputy premiership with one of the contenders – Chan Chun Sing – as second deputy PM.
- Continuity in substantive policies is likely, the hallmark of Singapore politics – that the election of a new PM does not lead to any abrupt change in major policies.
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