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In recent weeks, reported resignations of six senior public servants have - like it did with Mr Lee in 2006 - led to speculation they maybe candidates for ruling People's Action Party (PAP) in the coming General Election (GE).

Among them is Mr Jeffrey Siow, 2nd permanent secretary at ministries of manpower as well as trade & industry; & Ms Goh Hanyan, a director in Ministry of Digital Development and Info.

It remains to be seen if all former public servants go on to contest in GE2025 - but if they do, the number is more or less in line with previous GEs. At the last GE in 2020, five out of 27 new faces - about 19 per cent - fielded by the PAP were public servants, excluding those from the Singapore Armed Forces. The equivalent numbers were four out of 24 (17%) at GE2015 & seven out of 24 (29%) at GE2011 ruling party’s history of mining political talent from both military &  - which encompasses ministry-only civil service & other govt agencies like statutory boards - goes back decades.

Voting for PAP's CEC takes place every two years. The leadership elected this round will lead the party into the next General Election, which must be held by November next year.
The CEC is as follows:

Chairman: Heng Swee Keat
Vice chairman: Masagos Zulkifli
Secretary-general: Lawrence Wong
Assistant secretaries-general: Chan Chun Sing, Desmond Lee
Treasurer: K Shanmugam
Assistant treasurer: Ong Ye Kung
Organising secretaries: Grace Fu, Edwin Tong

Members:
Chee Hong Tat, 
Desmond Choo,
Indranee Rajah, 
Lam Pin Min, 
Lee Hsien Loong, 
Ng Chee Meng, 
Sim Ann, 
Tan See Leng, and
Vivian Balakrishnan
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