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PAP exco election set to give younger leaders bigger role in party

Younger ministers likely to take up more significant posts in top decision-making body

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Someone from PAP's central executive committee will eventually become Singapore's next prime minister, taking over from PM Lee, who has made clear he intends to hand over to a successor by the time he turns 70, in 2022.

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Rachel Au-Yong

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By around 9am tomorrow, more than 2,000 People's Action Party (PAP) cadres would have made their way to a hall in the Singapore Expo in Changi.
There, they will each be given a slip of paper with 19 names, seven of which will be highlighted.
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