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The outcome of the recent general election was good for Singapore, and reflects a desire among Singaporeans for a new balance in politics, said Senior Minister Tharman Shanmugaratnam on Sunday (July 19).
The country’s politics has changed permanently, he said in a Facebook post. “We will have to make this new balance work well for Singapore.”
That will happen if there is vigorous and informed debate between the People’s Action Party and opposition on policies, “with both sides treating the other with equanimity”, he added.
Mr Tharman said the results were good for the PAP for two reasons. First, the ruling party secured a solid mandate with 61.2 per cent of the popular vote.
“Trust in the PAP to run government and do what is best for Singaporeans is intact,” he noted.
Second, the 8.7 per cent swing in vote share from the 69.9 per cent that the PAP secured in 2015 – which Mr Tharman described as an “unrepeatable high” – is leading the party “to review its own game so as to win the hearts, and not just the minds, of a changing electorate”.
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