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SINGAPORE – Key fourth-generation cabinet members Lawrence Wong and Desmond Lee were elected to the ruling People’s Action Party (PAP) top decision-making body for the first time at the party conference on Sunday ( November 8th).
Wong, 47, is Minister of Education, Second Minister of Finance and co-chair of the multi-ministerial task force addressing the COVID-19 pandemic. Among others, he is a member of both the Council for the Economy of the Future and the Council for Research, Innovation and Business.
Meanwhile, Lee, 44, is Minister of National Development and Minister in charge of Integration of Social Services. Among others, he co-chairs the Singapore Together Movement, the Emerging Stronger Taskforce and the Future Economy Council Subcommittee for the Built Environment.
More than 2,000 party cadres voted at the party’s biennial conference for the top 12 candidates to be elected to the PAP’s central executive committee (CEC) for a two-year term. The conference was attended by more than 3,000 party activists in person and virtually.
Ten cabinet members were re-elected to the party’s CEC on Sunday: PAP incumbent general secretary Lee Hsien Loong, 68; President Gan Kim Yong, 61; Vice President Masagos Zulkifli, 57; First Deputy Secretary General Heng Swee Keat, 59; the second deputy secretary general, Chan Chun Sing, 51; Treasurer K Shanmugam, 61; Deputy Treasurer Ong Ye Kung, 50; organizational secretary Grace Fu, 56; and the members of the 35th CCA, Tan Chuan-Jin, 51; and Vivian Balakrishnan, 59.
In addition, 35th CCA members Indranee Rajah, 57, and Josephine Teo, 52, were co-opted into the 36th CCA.
Labor chief Ng Chee Meng, 52, who was defeated in Sengkang GRC in this year’s general elections, and Defense Minister Ng Eng Hen, 61, were not re-elected to the CEC, although they could still be co-opted. .
The 36th meeting of the CEC will meet later to elect its new incumbents and possibly co-opt other members of the CEC. The PAP constitution allows 18 members of the CEC.
At the party’s last conference in November 2018, five high-ranking PAP members resigned from the 34th CEC to make way for 4G leaders: then-First Deputy Secretary-General Teo Chee Hean, now 65; the second deputy secretary general, Tharman Shanmugaratnam, 63; President Khaw Boon Wan, 67; Vice President Yaacob Ibrahim, 65; and Treasurer Lim Swee Say, 66.
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