Singapore swears in Lawrence Wong, its first new PM in two decades

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Wong, 51, comes from among a crop of so-called “4G” leaders, a new generation of politicians that were hand-picked by the long-ruling People’s Action Party to take over the reins of the key Asian trade and financial centre.Wong will retain his current position as finance minister and takes charge of a country led for two decades by Lee Hsien Loong, the 72-year-old son of Lee Kuan Yew, the founder of modern Singapore who stayed in politics until his death in 2015.

Wong rose to prominence in 2020 as co-chair of the pandemic taskforce and was named Lee’s successor in April 2022 after a series of consultations between the political leadership and Wong’s peers.He was promoted to deputy prime minister and led a high-profile public consultation exercise to chart a “social compact” between the government and the people on dealing with issues like sustainability, inequality and employment.

His father stepped down as leader in 1990 and stayed on in the cabinets of his successors for 21 years, initially as senior minister then as “minister mentor” in his son’s government.

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