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As Singapore’s PM Lee Hsien Loong turns 70, no clear successor is in sight

Published Feb 10 2022 at 6:00 AM GMT
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  • Singapore’s Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong, in office now for 18 years, turned 70 on Thursday, an age that the city state’s political class has long viewed as a kind of self-imposed deadline the leader had given himself to hand over power.
  • Yet there is no clear successor in sight and observers are predicting that Lee may continue in his role until at least the middle of this decade.
  • For years, they frequently referenced an interview Lee gave a decade ago when he was asked whether he saw himself….




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  • Published Feb 10, 2022 6:00 AM GMT