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The PAP has governed Singapore since its general election victory in 1959. Since the NTUC's inception, relations between the PAP and NTUC are very close, and have often resulted in members concurrently holding office in both organisations. The NTUC's founder, Devan Nair, was a PAP stalwart and later served as President of Singapore.
She was endorsed by the Prime Minister and the NTUC. [73] The practice of the PAP endorsing a candidate has led to criticisms that this is improper as the Government is essentially "revealing who they would rather have as their supervisor". [74] Ong, who received the PAP's endorsement during the 1991 elections, revealed in a later interview: [75]
Ng Chee Meng PJG PPA(E) PPA(G) PBS (Chinese: 黄志明; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: N̂g Chì-bêng; pinyin: Huáng Zhìmíng; born 8 August 1968) [1] is a Singaporean politician, union leader and former lieutenant-general who is a member of the governing People's Action Party (PAP) and has been serving as Secretary-General of the National Trades Union Congress (NTUC) since 2018.
The PAP symbol, which is a red thunderbolt and blue circle on white, stands for action inside multicultural unity. It also appears on party flags on parades. PAP members at party rallies have customarily worn a uniform of white shirts and white trousers which symbolises incorruptibility and purity of the party's ideologies of the government. [101]
Lim himself had been preceded by Devan Nair, founder of the NTUC and a well-known democratic socialist member of the PAP's Old Guards, and Phey Yew Kok, [17] a powerful union leader who was instrumental in convincing Chinese unions to join the NTUC during the 1970s, but had been forced to resign in 1980 and fled the country in a corruption scandal.
Heng Chee How (Chinese: 王志豪; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Hêng Chì-hâu; pinyin: Wáng Zhìháo; born 14 July 1961) [1] [2] is a Singaporean politician, union leader and former police officer who has been serving as Senior Minister of State for Defence since 2018 and Deputy Secretary-General of the National Trade Union Congress since 1999.
The core of the PAP, the members of the first generation CEC began much of their chemistry as a basement group in Lee Kuan Yew's house. S. Rajaratnam described the CEC's tight-knit dynamics as a small jazz band, where "each musician plays the same melody, but is with considerable latitude in the precise manner in which he backs up the others". [3]
Mohd Fahmi bin Aliman (Jawi: محمد فهمى عليمن; born 1972) [1] is a Singaporean politician who has been serving as Mayor of South East District since 2020. A member of the governing People's Action Party (PAP), he has been the Member of Parliament (MP) representing the Geylang Serai division of Marine Parade GRC since 2020.