Singapore Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong calls early election for September 11
Source: Sydney Morning Herald
The legacy of Singapore's first prime minister Lee Kuan Yew will be tested when Singaporeans go the polls on September 11.
The city-state's ruling People's Action Party (PAP) has called an election more than a year early in a gamble that it can ride back into office on the feel-good factor of Singapore's 50th birthday on August 9.
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Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong acknowledged at the time of his father's death that Singapore was at an "inflection point" and faced some of the same challenges of developing countries, citing an ageing society, generational changes and the need for economic transformation.
At the last poll in 2011 the PAP received 60 per cent of the popular vote, its worst showing since Mr Lee began turning a colonial backwater into a global trade and finance centre a half century ago.
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The copy is a bit confusing. The Mr. Lee from half a century ago was the father of the current PM.
