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At the Straits Times Asia News Network Dialogue held at the Istana on Tuesday, PM Lee Hsien Loong was asked, “If you are not Prime Minister tomorrow, will Singapore be all right”? Mr Lee responded, “That is the objective”, to a round of applause.
Later, Mr Lee also added, “”In Singapore, we pay a lot of attention to succession planning and making sure we have a new team ready and new leaders who are capable of taking charge, so that the country can move ahead and the leaders can be in sync with the country.”
Prime Minister Lee is trying to convey the notion that his government has foresight and carries out succession planning in advance to ensure smooth continuity of leadership. However, in recent years, grave doubts have been cast on the ability of the government to have good foresight, to anticipate problems and prepare for the unexpected.
The most obvious symptom of the lack of foresight of Lee Hsien Loong’s administration is the overcrowding that has plagued Singapore and sky high property prices — both of which could have been mitigated or even prevented had the government been endowed with good foresight to anticipate challenges and prepare for them in advance.
In the 2000s, the government opened the floodgates and brought in foreigners in large numbers. The pace of foreign influx accelerated sharply after 2005, and the population grew from 4 million to well over 5 million in just a few short years.
As a result of this large foreign influx,
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11-04-2014, 09:30 PM
PM Lee’s Succession Planning and Lack of Foresight
