Singapore’s judgment party party (PAP) won the landslide in the elections due to concerns about living expenses and the state’s future economic stability.
Last year, in the first election, the PAP, led by Prime Minister Lawrence Wen, occupied 65.6%of voting and the overwhelming majority of 97 seats in Congress.
Singapore went to a poll on Saturday, worrying about inflation, wage stagnation and job prospects.
The result will be widely seen as a flight for the safety of PAP in fear of turbulence around the world.
Ian Chong, an associate professor of political science at Singapore National University (NUS), said, “Singapore is particularly vulnerable given the exposure to the economy and exposure to international forces.
The main opposition party, Centre-Left Workers’ PARTY (WP), did not occupy more, but kept 10 seats of parliament.
The center of the center is one of the longest competitors in the world, continuously controlling Singapore since 1959.
It was strongly supported by the elderly who saw the nation’s prosperity according to the Singapore people, especially the PAP rules.
But elections are not fraudulent and irregularity, while critics also say that sugars maintain unfair advantages through strictly controlled media with GerryMandering.
In the last three polls before Saturday, the PAP saw two minimum votes, and the WP increased its entry into Congress.
But the results of Saturdays were seen that the PAP returned to the form as voters gained strong obligations.
With the globalized globalization economy, Singapore has surged in inflation over the past few years.
The government has been attributed to external factors such as Ukrainian and Gaza War and Supply Control. But critics say that controversial products and service taxes have worsened.
As the US China Trade War proceeded and 10%of US tariffs approached, authorities and experts warned of more shocks and technical recessions in the economy.
In this background, the PAP conveyed a message of stability.
WONG warned that his team repeatedly promised to “controll on Singapore through the storm,” and that if more opposition MPs are elected, they will lose their competent spectacles when they are most necessary.
It was a message with many voters. One PAP supporter, a startup owner who wants to be known only as Amanda, told the BBC that his business was influenced by customers who suspended some projects due to the economic environment.
“Headwind is not big. There’s a lot of uncertainty … I want a party that has an experienced party,” she said.
PAP has seen a scandal related to the minister in recent years, but this has rarely talked during the election. Analysts said they were getting better from people’s minds, given more immediate concern about the economy.
Some people see the result as a sign of confidence in WONG, who led the Kobid Task Force in Singapore and regularly spoke to the public during the epidemic period.
REBECCA TAN, a NUS political science instructor, said, “He showed his ability with Kobid Task Force, who trusts him.
WONG is the first Prime Minister to improve the party’s voting share in the first election. Previously, the previous PMS reflected the uncertainty of the voters in the polls that analysts used to call the “new PM” effects. “
The powerful result of the PAP was due to partially fragmented opposition parties, and ten parties went up against them. There are few exceptions, but most of them are not performed properly.
Teo Kay Key, a researcher at the Think Tank Institute of Policy Studies, said that despite the recent elections, the latest results are “satisfied with the number of opposition MPs.”
But she added, “It looks more optional when the Singapore people point out the WP’s performance when they vote for the opposition party.”
The WP campaigned on a platform that lowered the cost of living and strengthened the safety net.
Although it did not take more positions, the voting share increased in the constituency and prevented the fight with others to strengthen its position as the strongest opposition party of the state.
Despite the recent controversial incident of the former workers’ MP and WP leader Pritam Singh, he was convicted of lying to Congress. Many people based on WP’s support, especially I think that the case of Singh has been politically motivated.
Singh, shortly after his constituency was declared, admitted that it would always be a difficult election.
But he added: “Slate wipes cleanly and starts work again tomorrow.”
