Lawrence Wong Is Ready to Lead Singapore, Says PM Lee in Letter to President Tharman

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SINGAPORE: Deputy Prime Minister Lawrence Wong is ready to lead Singapore, Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong wrote on Monday (May 13) in a letter to President Tharman Shanmugaratnam, announcing his ...

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2024-05-13
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Ok then.... huat ah
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He then wrote to Mr Wong stating his intention to appoint him as Prime Minister and invited him to form the next government.Mr Lee, 72, noted in his letter that he had originally planned to hand over to a successor by the time he was 70 but the COVID-19 pandemic disrupted this timeline.\"After the pandemic, we carried out a process to choose my successor. On Apr 14, 2022, the PAP (People's Action Party) Members of Parliament met and unanimously endorsed Mr Lawrence Wong as the person to succeed me,\" he said in the letter to President Tharman.\"Now, two years on, he is ready to lead Singapore,\" wrote Mr Lee, who formally advised the President to invite Mr Wong to form the next government.Letter from PM Lee Hsien Loong to President TharmanIn President Tharman's reply, he agreed that Mr Wong commands the confidence of the majority of the MPs.He also thanked Mr Lee, who took office in August 2004, for four decades of \"selfless service\" in government.\"Your sense of duty and integrity, wisdom and compassion, have set a high standard, and will inspire those who follow.\"Mr Wong, who is also Finance Minister, previously said that Mr Lee has agreed to stay on in the Cabinet as Senior Minister. This continues a tradition for past outgoing Prime Ministers.\"Your experience and advice will I am sure benefit the new leadership team as they chart the next phase of our history and make an even better Singapore,\" President Tharman said in his letter to Mr Lee.Writing to Mr Wong, the President wrote: \"I have every confidence that as Prime Minister, you will lead Singapore with honour and ensure the continued stability and vitality of our nation.\" Letter from President Tharman to PM Lee Hsien LoongLetter from President Tharman to DPM Lawrence Wong","news_type":1},"isVote":1,"likeStatus":false,"favoriteStatus":false,"reportStatus":false,"tweetType":1,"langContent":"EN"}],"isCommentEnd":false,"newsSizeData":{"likeSize":6,"commentSize":2,"repostSize":1,"favoriteSize":0,"likeStatus":false,"favoriteStatus":false},"APP":{"userAgent":"Mozilla/5.0 AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko; compatible; ClaudeBot/1.0; +claudebot@anthropic.com)","isDev":false,"isTTM":true,"deviceId":"web-server-community-laohu8-v3","version":"4.30.2","shortVersion":"4.30.2","platform":"web","vendor":"web","appName":"ttm","isIOS":false,"isAndroid":false,"isTiger":false,"isTHS":false,"isWeiXin":false,"isWeiXinMini":false,"isWeiBo":false,"isQQ":false,"isBaiduSwan":false,"isBaiduBox":false,"isDingTalk":false,"isToutiao":false,"isOnePlus":false,"isHuaWei":false,"isXiaomi":false,"isXiaomiWebView":false,"isOppo":false,"isVivo":false,"isSamsung":false,"isMobile":false},"href":"/m/news/1145363673"}