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Inside the PAP’s GE2025 playbook – and why rivals should take notes

Seeking to salve the sting of defeat is understandable, but opposition-leaning voices should closely study why the PAP’s GE2025 strategy worked.

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PAP supporters cheering at Bukit Gombak Stadium on May 4.

PAP supporters cheering at Bukit Gombak Stadium after the results were out on May 4.

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Victory has a thousand fathers, as they say, while defeat is an orphan.

Yet for Singapore’s ruling PAP, one of the world’s most successful political parties, such is its reality that even when a strong win materialises, there is every chance it is dismissed as not that big a deal. Why praise the political equivalent of a serial championship-winning team for securing another trophy?

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