Singapore's next Prime Minister Lawrence Wong talks about his leadership style, how he will address increasingly diverse views among people and his approach towards the opposition, ahead of his May 15 swearing-in ceremony.
But he emphasised that he will do everything he can to make sure the party continues securing the mandate from Singaporeans to govern the country. TheMr Wong said the new leadership is prepared to relook everything in refreshing Singapore’s social compact. In his Budget speech this year, Mr Wong, who is also the Finance Minister, announced moves to encourage mid-career workers to take up SkillsFuture training programmes that are more closely related to work skills, including a S$4,000 top-up in SkillsFuture credits for those aged 40 and above.
The scheme is being designed in a way that will let those unemployed get new skills through “a new wave of learning, not as a burden, not for grades”, but to provide a second boost in their careers and help them secure better jobs, said Mr Wong.When sensitive issues emerge in the country, the government has to facilitate dialogue and bring people together to find consensus on how best to move forward as one “without fracturing our society”, said Mr Wong.
He said his approach would be to listen and engage widely, but at the end of the day, he will make the final decisions and be responsible for the choices made. “The way forward is for us to embrace that diversity, continue to engage one another, and at the same time, work even harder to find unity amidst diversity, to find common ground.”
“We will have to explain, engage with the public, why we think this is important and hopefully be able to persuade Singaporeans to move along.”“We accept that it is going to be a permanent feature in our political system. In the past, when you think about the days of PAP dominance under Mr Lee Kuan Yew – those days are over.”
“In most countries in the world, the goal of any political party must be to form government so it can implement the wishes of the electorate and shape the government’s policies differently from the incumbent,” Mr Singh had said. Mr Lawrence Wong with the People's Action Party team for Marsiling-Yew Tee GRC, after filing nomination papers at Chong Fu School on 30 Jun, 2020.
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