{"id":57972,"date":"2023-09-01T13:04:44","date_gmt":"2023-09-01T04:04:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/sep\/01\/singapore-to-choose-new-president-amid-rare-political-scandals"},"modified":"2023-09-01T13:04:44","modified_gmt":"2023-09-01T04:04:44","slug":"singapore-to-choose-new-president-amid-rare-political-scandals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=57972","title":{"rendered":"Singapore to choose new president amid rare political scandals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Election comes as minister faces a corruption investigation and voters express frustration with the electoral process<\/p>\n<p>Singaporeans will select a new president on Friday, a vote that will measure public mood at a time when the ruling party, which has been in power for more than six decades, is reeling from a spate of uncommon political scandals.<\/p>\n<p>The vote comes as a senior government minister is under investigation by the country\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/jul\/15\/singapore-arrests-cabinet-minister-in-top-level-corruption-probe\">anti-graft agency<\/a>, and after the resignation of two senior lawmakers over an affair.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/sep\/01\/singapore-to-choose-new-president-amid-rare-political-scandals\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Election comes as minister faces a corruption investigation and voters express frustration with the electoral processSingaporeans will select a new president on Friday, a vote that will measure public mood at a time when the ruling party, which has bee&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":860,"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":[41,783,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57972","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-singapore","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57972","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\/860"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=57972"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57972\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57973,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57972\/revisions\/57973"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=57972"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=57972"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=57972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}