No such thing as coincidence.
Not many places in this world you get a ruling party trying so hard to help opposition parties develop their pipeline of capable folks... Lol
It's one thing to protect the interest of the inner circle and another to balance it such that public and individuals will not rise up against a bad administration. There are some bad administration that went on for a long time simply because that pivotal not reached... For others that got so swelled up in their head, ego and ways... They simply just handing the pistol to the opposing forces and voters...
If PAP cannot force him to leave for what he said, no more incentive for PAP to be PAP, PAP might as well split up, all go back to private sector or civil service.
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Do you think it's the truth?