DPM Wong to be Acting Prime Minister this week with PM Lee on leave
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Deputy Prime Minister Lawrence Wong will be Acting Prime Minister this week as Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong is going on leave, the Prime Minister's Office announced yesterday. PM Lee is on leave from today to Sunday.
Mr Wong, who is also Finance Minister, was appointed to the position of Deputy Prime Minister as part of changes to the Cabinet announced last Monday.
It was also announced then that he would be Acting Prime Minister in the absence of PM Lee.
Mr Wong was selected as the leader of the People's Action Party's fourth-generation leadership by his peers in April, paving the way for him to be Singapore's next prime minister.
