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PM Wong Calls Election at Time of 'Profund Changes in the World'
April 16, 2025
|The Straits Times
Singaporeans Should Decide on Team to Lead Nation at This Critical Juncture: PM
Prime Minister Lawrence Wong said he has called a general election now as the world is undergoing profound changes, becoming more uncertain, unsettled and even unstable, and Singaporeans have to decide on the team that should lead the nation.
"The global conditions that enabled Singapore's success over the past decades may no longer hold," he said on his social media accounts on April 15.
"That is why I have called this general election. At this critical juncture, Singaporeans should decide on the team to lead our nation, and to chart our way forward together."
PM Wong's posts came shortly after he advised President Tharman Shanmugaratnam to dissolve Parliament and issue the Writ of Election. Nomination Day is on April 23, and Singaporeans will head to the polls on May 3.
The upcoming election is PM Wong's first as prime minister and secretary-general of the PAP.
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