In the election of Singapore, all eyes on the sidelines of victory, not the winner

Like the last time Singapore held the elections, it is in the labor of a global crisis.

Five years ago, the ruling party filmed itself as the fixed hand to guide the nation through the Korona virus. The stadium is the same time, as President Trump raises the commercial matter in the world.

Like the last time, there is no doubt that the People’s Work Party, which has been in power since 1959, will retain power. But Saturday’s elections will be a test of PAP popularity, which was presented in 2020, even when it got a clear majority. It was an increasing evidence of the desire to obtain a competitive democracy in the city of the city.

Now many political analysts agree that the opposition is gaining influence in Singapore. Many voters are not satisfied with PAP response to the high cost of living. During the campaign, the country’s main opposition party gatherings, the Labor Party, were crowded, and sold its goods. However, Pritam Singh, the party leader, made pain to ensure the public that his party did not compete for sufficient seats to form a government, but added that Singapore needed a more balanced political system.

“When you have opposition in Parliament, your alternative voice is heard by the government,” Mr. Singh said in his first rally on his party last week.

“We must be active participants in our democracy,” he added.

The elections can also end up with a referendum for change: Prime Minister Lawrence Wong took office last year after the Yanjevin period from Lee Hsin Long, the son of the founding father in Singapore. Mr. Wong said that the mobility of the American -Chinese trade war and tensions “will take people in the government who have built confidence and close relations with their counterparts in both America and China.”

He repeated the same argument that his party made decades ago: that PAP has a busy record in achieving stability and prosperity for this nation, which number about six million, one of the richest individual in the world.

The problem is that many ordinary Singaporeans no longer feel prosperous. Singapore has now More millions From London. While the average wealth has doubled more than twice the conditions of the local currency, the average wealth has decreased by 1.8 percent from 2008 to 2023, According to the Swiss Bank UBS.

In the last elections, PAP won one of the shares of votes in history and waived 10 standard seats for the opposition. Since then, the government has strengthened social spending, which gave allowances to those who have been abandoned and provide generous paternity benefits. But it continued to confront discontent due to the high cost of living, the increase in sales tax twice, and the low ability to withstand the costs of housing, the issues that the opposition seized.

The opposition has widely criticized PAP for one of the shortest periods of campaigns in the world – nine days – and to express the limits of elections in the areas where they achieved gains in the previous reconnaissance. PAP rejected the assurances, saying that the electoral border review committee is working independently of the government.

In February, Mr. Singh was convicted of lying under the department to Parliament, but the voters ignored this. In a survey by BlackBox Research in the weeks before the elections, Mr. Singh received the approval of 71 percent, an increase of seven points over the previous quarter. Mr. Wong was a touch in the future, with 75 percent.