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Article: A rational choice; Singapore's election.
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- The Economist (US)
- Article date:
- April 22, 2006
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Will the affluent young deny the bossy ruling party a clean sweep?
SINGAPOREAN television showed an atypically interesting programme last week. In "Why My Vote Matters--A Dialogue with the Minister Mentor", the city-state's octogenarian former prime minister, Lee Kuan Yew, faced a panel of young voters, who made all sorts of criticisms of his People's Action Party (PAP), which has ruled Singapore since independence from Britain in the 1960s. Mr Lee--still a power in the land as cabinet "mentor" to the current prime minister, his son, Lee Hsien Loong--heard his party called "arrogant" and "power crazy" and accused of making people afraid to vote for the ...