PAP is to win while Singaporeon votes for stability

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The Popular Labor Party in Singapore won its sixteenth election in a row on Saturday, which increased its share of the popular vote as voters in the country -based country -based country in the face of increasing geopolitical tensions.

PAP – which dates back to 1959 to 1959 when Singapore was a British colony – got 87 out of 97 seats in the results announced in the early hours of Sunday morning, including five unintended seats.

Under Prime Minister Lawrence WongWhich was raised to the round a year ago, the party received 66 percent of popular votes, above 61 percent in the last elections in 2020 and the highest margins of its victory for a decade.

This year’s elections are appointed Against the background From an escalating global trade war, it was ignited by a set of definitions announced by US President Donald Trump a month ago.

With the equivalent of global trade in Singapore for more than three times its gross domestic product, the financial and commercial axis – which plays a decisive role in exchanging goods and services between China and the West – is seen as especially vulnerable to contraction in global trade.

“The results will put Singapore in a better position to confront this troubled world.”

The elections were seen as a decisive test of the 52 -year -old Wong and PAP as it looks forward to a future outside the Li family, which has dominated Singaporean policy over the past seven decades and supervises the transformation of the city from a developing nation to one of the richest world.

Wong assumed the position of Lee Hsin Long, the son of the modern country’s founder, Lee Kwan Yu. Lee Hsin Long, who maintains an influential consultative role within the government, runs the country for 20 years.

As with the recent elections in Canada and Australia, the job occupant was good in the face of geopolitical uncertainty.

Singapore has cut off Growth expectations For the year from 1-3 per cent to 0-2 per cent on the possibility of a disturbance in global trade and warned of possible recession.

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio Wong and PAP congratulated their victory, adding: “For nearly 60 years, the United States and Singapore have shared a strong, permanent strategic partnership and commitment to a safe, free and prosperous region.”

The Labor Party, the main opposition group, won 10 seats as it happened five years ago, but it will get two additional seats called unusual because of its proximity to PAP in some electoral districts.

Pretam Singh, leader of the Labor Party, acknowledged that it was a difficult campaign, before which he was convicted of lying to Parliament in a case that competes with it.

He said: “The menu has been cleared clean, we start working again, and we go again.”