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Between 1963 and 1965, Singapore was a part of Malaysia and the PAP functioned as a Malaysian party. However, the prospect that the PAP might rule Malaysia upset PAP relations with UMNO and the Malay nationalist belief in the Tanah Melayu. The clash of personalities between Lee Kuan Yew and the Malaysian Prime Minister Tunku Abdul Rahman resulted in an ensuing crisis and led to Singapore's separation from Malaysia in 1965. Upon independence, the PAP ceased operations outside of Singapore.
Because almost all professional politicians in Singapore are members of the People's Action Party, The PAP has held the overwhelming majority of seats in Parliament since 1966, when the opposition Barisan Sosialis Party (Socialist Front), a left-wing group that split off from the PAP in 1961, resigned from Parliament, leaving the PAP as the sole representative party. In the general elections of 1968, 1972, 1976, and 1980, the PAP won all of the seats in an expanding parliament.
Originally a socialist party, the PAP Executive later expelled the leftist faction, bringing the ideological basis of the party into the centre, and later in the 60s, moving further to the right.
For many years the party was led by Lee Kuan Yew, who was prime minister from 1959 to 1990. The current prime minister, and secretary general of the PAP, is Lee Hsien Loong who succeeded Goh Chok Tong on 12 August, 20042004 is a leap year starting on Thursday (the link is to a full 2004 calendar), and has also been designated the: International Year of Rice International Year to Commemorate the Struggle against Slavery and its Abolition Elections are to be held in 73 co. Lee Hsien Loong is the eldest son of Lee Kuan Yew.
Even though the PAP can be credited with the economic success of Singapore, it has allegedly ruled the country with authoritarianismThe term authoritarianism is used to describe an organization or a state which enforces strong and sometimes oppressive measures against the population. It is distinguished from totalitarianism both by degree and scope, authoritarian administration or gov. The opposition often strongly accuses it of suppressing political opposition in ways such as gerrymanderingGerrymandering is a controversial form of redistricting in which electoral district or constituency boundaries are manipulated for electoral advantage, usually of incumbents or a specific political party. Gerrymandering may also be used to advantage a par, prosecuting the opposition under slander charges, requiring government permits to hold demonstrations, and controlling the press through state monopolies, and invoking laws that impose on political freedoms.
These accusations are not groundless. Any demonstrations against the 2003 Iraq war died down due to lack of demonstration permits registered by the demonstrators. The leading newspaperBrookgreen Gardens Pawleys Island, South Carolina A newspaper is a lightweight and disposable publication, usually printed on low-cost paper called newsprint, containing a journal of current news in a variety of topics. These topics can include political of Singapore, the Straits Times is often perceived as a propaganda newspaper because it often praises the government and scarcely criticises it, and covers little about the opposition. The PAP is alleged to commit gerrymandering, the redrawing of electoral districts before general elections to ensure that most of the districts end up voting for the PAP. Both the Housing Development Board (in charge of public housing) and Land Transport Authority (in charge of public transit) have based the provision of their services on the voting of individual districts. However, this form of carrot-and-stick policy perhaps only occurs because being a city-state, the government both has powers of state and of city-planning.
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