Voters practise social distancing while queuing up at a polling station during Singapore's general election, amid the coronavirus disease outbreak, in Singapore July 10, 2020. — Reuters pic
The People’s Action Party , in power since independence in 1965, is expected by analysts to carry Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong to another comfortable, and probably final, victory. All around the city, election officials wearing visors enforced distancing rules and took voters’ temperatures. Social distancing rules constrained campaigning, and no party rallies were allowed, but opposition parties and rights groups still warned that holding the election now could distract from government efforts to tackle the virus.
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