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For other groups with the same name, see People's Action Party (disambiguation). The People's Action Party (PAP) is a major conservative [11][12] political party of the centre-right [13] in Singapore. It is one of the three contemporary political parties represented in the Parliament of Singapore, alongside the opposition Workers' Party (WP ...
For the second consecutive election, the PAP safe seat of Jurong GRC saw the best result of the PAP, or any party, in any constituency in the election, with 74.62% of the vote. [ 181 ] Excluding the overseas electorate, voter turnout was 95.54%, or 2,535,565 voters, the highest turnout rate of any election (including both general and ...
The Parliament of Singapore is unicameral with 93 seats. Since the legislative assembly election in 1959, the People's Action Party (PAP) has had an overwhelming majority, and for nearly two decades was the only political party to win any seats, and has always formed the Government of Singapore.
After the 2020 general election, the governing People's Action Party (PAP) appointed Heng Swee Keat as First Assistant Secretary-General, and next in line to succeed Lee Hsien Loong as Prime Minister during their Central Executive Committee (CEC) election, subject to the party winning a majority of seats in the next general election. [13]
Singaporean politics have been dominated by the People's Action Party (PAP) since the 1959 general election when Lee Kuan Yew became Singapore's first prime minister (Singapore was then a self-governing state within the British Empire). The PAP has been the only ruling party to form the government since then. Singapore joined the Federation of ...
Tan is a former CEO of NTUC Income (1997–2007) and former branch secretary at Marine Parade GRC of the governing People's Action Party (PAP) for three years. He eventually left the PAP in 2008 after three decades of membership, due to his inactivity and disagreements with the party's values.
The Democratic Action Party (abbrev: DAP; Malay: Parti Tindakan Demokratik) is a centre-left social democratic political party in Malaysia. [5] As one of four component parties of the Pakatan Harapan (PH) coalition, it formed the federal government after defeating Barisan Nasional (BN) in the 2018 Malaysian general election, ending the party's ...
Foo Mee Har. In this Chinese name, the family name is Foo. Foo Mee Har (Chinese : 胡美霞; pinyin : Hú Měixiá; born 10 January 1966) [ 1 ][ 2 ] is a Malaysian-born Singaporean politician and businesswoman. She is a member of the governing People's Action Party (PAP). Foo has served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for the Ayer Rajah ...