SINGAPORE: Japan’s The Nikkei, the globe’s biggest economic paper, has actually reported that the governing People’s Action Party (PAP) is “walking on thin ice” following a wave of scandals including prominent political leaders that ended up being public last month.
The write-up, qualified ‘Singapore political drama exposes frailty of Lee’ s sequence strategy’, covered the corruption examination including Transport Minister S Iswaran and also the adulterous event in between Speaker of Parliament Tan Chuan-Jin and also backbencher MP Cheng Li Hui.
Both Mr Tan and also Ms Cheng have actually surrendered, while Mr Iswaran has actually been put on hold and also had his pay cut after being apprehended and also launched on bond by the Corrupt Practices Bureau of Investigation (CPIB) as component of their recurring probe.
The Nikkei holds that the recent conflicts have actually damaged Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong’s sequence strategies.
PM Lee, that …