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Why it’s not easy to get Singapore’s young voters onside

Many have strong, liberal views and policymakers will have to engage them on the pace of political change.

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Voters at a polling station in Pasir Ron July 10, 2020. [General Election 2020]

Voters at a polling station in Pasir Ris during the July 2020 General Election.

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In January 2004, months before he took over as Prime Minister, then DPM Lee Hsien Loong laid out his political vision for Singapore in a speech to the Harvard Club.

In it, he said the Government would be more open and inclusive in its policy-making. 

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