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PAP conference: Reminder of need for party to change amid reassurance of continuity
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SINGAPORE - Every two years, over 2,000 men and women in white congregate for the ruling People's Action Party (PAP) conference, where they elect the party's top decision-making body and map the way forward.
But unlike previous conferences, the PAP cadres cast their votes on Sunday (Nov 8) in a distributed manner - against the backdrop of the Covid-19 pandemic, and amid news from the other side of the world that a deeply divisive election had produced a new president of the United States.
