{"id":20391,"date":"2020-07-11T13:39:16","date_gmt":"2020-07-11T04:39:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/jul\/11\/singapores-ruling-party-dominates-election-but-opposition-makes-historic-gains"},"modified":"2020-07-11T13:39:16","modified_gmt":"2020-07-11T04:39:16","slug":"singapores-ruling-party-dominates-election-but-opposition-makes-historic-gains","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=20391","title":{"rendered":"Singapore&#8217;s ruling party dominates election but opposition makes historic gains"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Prime minister Lee Hsien Loong retains overwhelming majority as popular vote slips amid coronavirus pandemic<\/p>\n<p>Singapore\u2019s governing party has comfortably won the city-state\u2019s general election but faced a setback as the opposition made minor but historic gains.<\/p>\n<p>The prime minister, Lee Hsien Loong, said his People\u2019s Action party (PAP) secured 83 parliamentary seats on Friday, retaining its overwhelming majority with 89% of the total seats, but its popular vote dipped to 61%. The Workers\u2019 party, the only opposition with a presence in the parliament, increased its seats from six to 10 \u2013 the biggest victory for the opposition since independence.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/jul\/11\/singapores-ruling-party-dominates-election-but-opposition-makes-historic-gains\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prime minister Lee Hsien Loong retains overwhelming majority as popular vote slips amid coronavirus pandemicSingapore\u2019s governing party has comfortably won the city-state\u2019s general election but faced a setback as the opposition made minor but historic &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,1069,783],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20391","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-coronavirus-outbreak","category-singapore"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20391","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20391"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20391\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20393,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20391\/revisions\/20393"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}