SINGAPORE – Singapore’s Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong said on Saturday, April 16, that Finance Minister Lawrence Wong would succeed him as the city-state’s leader.
Lee, whose father Lee Kwan Yew was the island nation’s independence leader, has been prime minister since 2004. Leadership succession in the country, governed by the PAP since its 1965 independence, is normally a carefully planned affair. Emerging from travel curbs and strict regulations that made it a pandemic success story, Singapore is vying to retain and build on its status as a hub of international commerce.
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