PAP rules again – with more votes


“WHAT a wonderful, amazing win by the People’s Action Party (PAP),” Singapore’s former Senior Minister of State for Foreign Affairs Zainul Abidin Rasheed WhatsApped early yesterday morning.

The ruling party has returned to power in the island republic’s general election as expected but with a far larger share of the popular votes – 69.9%, up from 60.1% in 2011 and even surpassing 66.6% in the 2006 polls.

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