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He’s already been called Singapore’s next prime minister by foreign media since his appointment as first assistant secretary general of the People’s Action Party (PAP) in November 2018.
The appointment makes the 58-year-old the highest-ranked member of the fourth-generation leadership in the PAP’s central executive committee.
This is also the position that the incumbent PAP secretary general, Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong, occupied before he took over the reins.
And with Lee previously indicating that he would like to retire before he turns 70, which is in 2021, all signs indicate that Heng, who is currently Deputy Prime Minister, is his likely successor.
Senior Minister Tharman Shanmugaratnam has also publicly shared on Facebook that “Swee Keat is the best person to move up to become DPM and take over as PM during the next term of government”.
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