Constitutionally engineering non-partisanship
On 8 December 1965 when Parliament sat for the first time after Singapore’s independence, not a single Opposition Member of Parliament (MP) attended. Barisan Sosialis (BS) MPs, a breakaway faction of the People’s Action Party (PAP), had boycotted the sitting in protest of Singapore’s “phoney” indepe...
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