of generational change and youthful

For Singapore’s People’s Action Party (PAP) government, the best news of 2024 came in May, when then prime minister Lee Hsien Loong (72) handed the premiership to his handpicked successor, Lawrence Wong (then 51) Lee’s succession plans had been the nagging background story in Singapore politics since 2016. After a painful journey replete with a disastrous first choice of successor, compounded by years of procrastination, the result has been a camera-friendly new prime minister who presents the reassurance of continuity and competence supplemented by a veneer of generational change and youthful energy. The rest of 2024 continued the narrative of 2023, in which most political stories were negative developments that the government needed to manage, rather than positive developments that it could exploit. สล็อต เว็บตรง