Political Parties (Singapore)

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• People's Action Party
• Singapore Workers' Party

See also:

• Singapore

by Ivan Sache

Smith 1975, pp. 340-341 ("Symbols in politics"): "White field with a centered thick blue circle vertically crossed by a red flash". According to Encyclopaedia Universalis CD-ROM (1998):

Several successive constitutions were worked out until the adoption of the Constitution of 3 June 1959, following elections won by People's Action Party (PAP), whose leader, Lee Kuan Yew, became Prime Minister. The goal of PAP was then independence by the way of merging with the Malay Federation, realized on 16 September 1963. Difficulties increased during 1964: racial troubles and bloody fights in summer in Singapore, Indonesian aggressions and acts of sabotage all the year long against Singapore and Malaysia. The results of these troubles was the proclamation of independence in Singapore on 9 August 1965. Since then, all elections have given most seats if not all to PAP, whose