Singapore’s ruling party sweeps to victory as voters opt for stability

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The Singapore Labor Party won its people in its sixteenth election in a row, which increased its share of popular vote as voters in the country -based country -based country in the face of increasing geopolitical tensions.

PAP – which dates back to 1959 to 1959 when Singapore was a British colony – got 87 out of 97 seats, including five seats that were not tested, according to the results announced in the early hours of Sunday morning.

In its first electoral competition during the era of Prime Minister Lawrence Wong, who was raised to this role a year ago, the party received 66 percent of popular votes, above 61 percent in the last elections in 2020 and the highest margins of its victory in a decade.

More than 92 percent of the 2.6 million registered voters voted in a poll on Saturday, according to the State Elections Department in the city, a decrease of 96 percent five years ago.

This year’s elections came amid an escalating global trade war raised by US President Donald Trump’s trade war, and recent opinion polls in Canada and Australia have echoed, as the job operator performed well in the face of geopolitical uncertainty.

Singapore’s global trade exceeds three times its gross domestic product, and the financial and commercial axis – which plays an important role in exchanging goods and services between China and the West – is especially vulnerable to contraction in world trade.

“The results will put Singapore in a better position to confront this troubled world,” Wong said in a speech at 3 am. He called the election result “a clear indication of confidence, stability and confidence.”

The elections were seen as a decisive test of the 52 -year -old Wong and PAP, as it looks forward to a future outside the Foundation’s family in the country, which has dominated Singaporean policy over the past seven decades and supervised the state’s transformation in the city from a developing country to one of the richest world.

Wong took over Li Hsin Long, the son of the modern country’s founder, Lee Kwan Yu. Lee Hsin Long, who maintains an influential consultative role within the government, runs the country for 20 years.

But he will have to struggle with the high costs of living that has been pressured on the 6 million city country, which makes its dependence on imports particularly vulnerable to disturbance in the supply chain and high inflation.

Singapore reduced her growth forecast for this year from 1-3 percent to 0-2 percent on the possibility of disruption in global trade and warned of possible recession.

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio Wong and PAP congratulated their victory. He said: “For nearly 60 years, the United States and Singapore have participated in a strong and permanent strategic partnership and commitment to a safe, respectful and prosperous region in the Pacific Ocean.”

The Labor Party, the main opposition group, won the ten seats that PAP did not occupy, the same number it won five years ago. He will get two additional seats, so -called two seats because of its proximity to PAP in some electoral districts.

Pretam Singh, leader of the Labor Party, acknowledged that it was a difficult campaign. Before the survey, he was convicted of lying to parliament, an issue that is competing for.

He said: “The menu has been cleared clean, we start working again, and we go again.”