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Sea Change in Singapore Politics?

Sea Change in Singapore Politics?

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Jan 29, 2013
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The shock People's Action Party defeat in Singapore's Punggol East by-election, won over the weekend by the opposition Workers Party candidate Lee Li Lian with 54.5 percent of the vote, seems a watershed in the island republic's politics.

Certainly it was a by-election, not a general one, so an opposition candidate could be expected to better than at th…

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