He added that today, compared to 40 or 50 years ago, people look at a candidate as a whole, not just race.
“They look at people in totality… Singapore’s ready any time. If someone comes up who’s a superior candidate for prime minister, the person can be made the prime minister. I believe they can,”As recently as 2019, then-Finance Minister Heng Swee Keat said in a ministerial forum organised by the NTU Students’ Union
Assistant Professor Walid Jumblatt Abdullah of NTU’s School of Social Sciences public policy and global affairs programme mentioned that Mr Tharman had been consistently popular at Jurong GRC. The audience member who had posed the question about a non-Chinese Prime Minister had said that Mr Tharman was also many people’s choice to succeed PM Lee.
“My own experience in walking the ground, in working with different people from all walks of life, is that the views — if you go by age and by life experience — would be very different,” answered Mr Heng.
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