Singapore’s Bruised PAP Returns to Power as Expected
Battered by the coronavirus and worsening economic times, government’s vote total shrinks
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Beset by a botched response to the coronavirus crisis but protected by near-flawless gerrymandering, Singapore’s People’s Action Party has maintained its six-decade supermajority in Parliament via national elections on July 10 although it only eked out slightly more than 60 percent of the vote.
It was a kind of damned if you don’t, damned if you do elect…
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