| Singaporean here. The PAP has ruthlessly gerrymandered their way into winning an overwhelming number of seats in recent elections. Most constituencies are Group Representation Constituencies (GRCs) [1], which mean that many new PAP candidates can enter by riding on the coattails of a higher-profile veteran. In 2025, the PAP emotionally blackmailed Singaporeans into voting for a Deputy Prime Minister [2] who was shifted to an at-risk GRC, with promises to navigate Singapore through the US tariffs that came to naught (my eyes are rolling so hard at writing this statement). The PAP effectively controls the electoral boundaries, because the chairperson of the Electoral Boundaries Review Committee [3] is the Prime Minister's secretary, and the other members are all career civil servants who are incentivised to not rock the boat. If the opposition had been allowed to contest in 2025 again with 2020's electoral constituencies, they would more likely have had far better results [4][5]. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Group_representation_constitue... [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gan_Kim_Yong [3] https://www.gov.sg/explainers/what-is-the-role-and-compositi... [4] https://www.reddit.com/r/singapore/comments/1jay630/how_did_... [5] https://www.reddit.com/r/singapore/comments/1k6n1ps/another_... |