Banyan: The limits to dialogue

摘要

When the People's Action Party (pap), which has ruled Singapore ever since self-government in 1959, recorded its worst ever general election result in May 2011, it still won 60% of the votes and 81 out of 87 contested parliamentary seats. But far from shrugging off the setback, the party's leader, Lee Hsien Loong, the prime minister, promised some "soul-searching", acknowledging that many Singaporeans wanted the party to adopt "a different style and approach". Since then, it has tried just that.