Lee Hsien Loong lost 2 GRCs. How about Lawrence Wong, sooner or later?

Lee Hsien Loong lost 2 GRCs.

How about Lawrence Wong, sooner or later?

In the 20 years of Lee Hsien Loong Administration, the PAP lost 2 GRCs. 2011 in Aljunied GRC. 2020 in SengKang GRC. Lawrence Wong will have his first test in GE 2025.

Wong has acknowledged that the PAP is no longer a dominant party. So, will he lose another GRC or more? Singaporeans will decide whether losing GRC is at an increasing or decreasing speed. How soon, faster or slower than Lee Hsien Loong?

In the US, Lee claimed that there is high trust between Singapore society and the PAP government. If this is true, Lawrence Wong may even gain back a GRC rather than losing another GRC.

Lee said Singapore is quite unusual. Other countries may not easily duplicate the same. From the economic results and performance, yes. But it is also unusual in its political reforms, GRC, NMP, NCMP, FORMA, constitutional amendments, etc.

The PAP is lucky that her political reforms also unusually work very well to prolong her chance of losing more parliament seats. But how long can the trust effects of reforms last? Wong may have seen the coming, but he will have to face the consequences of all the PAP creative political reforms. Good or bad, sooner or later, we will see it in less than a year.

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