a) political
renewal within PAP
b) female
PAP leadership
For the 1st matter: political renewal within PAP, many Singaporeans’ eyes are on the 3 political new rising stars: Chan Chun Sing, Tan Chuan-Jin and Lawrence Wong. For the 2nd matter: female PAP leadership, Singaporeans have at last a female Minister after the General Election 2011 in Grace Fu. My personal feeling is that Josephine Teo will be the next female Minister.
But before I digress further, I will like to share my
thoughts on another spotlight that may not be that prominent, that is on the
state of Malay PAP leadership succession. With the announcement on 31 Jul 12, Assoc
Prof Dr Muhammad Faishal Ibrahim, an academic in Real Estate of NUS is inducted
into political office, being a Parliament Secretary for Health and Transport.
Currently, there is only 1 Malay PAP Minister: Dr Yaacob
Ibrahim and only a handful of Malay political office holders in parliament. I
think the next highest-ranking Malay PAP leader is Mr Hawazi, a
Minister-of-State. There is also one Senior Parliament Secretary in Maliki who
also helmed the mayorship of South East Constituency.
I feel that given his age, Assoc Prof Dr Muhammad Faishal
Ibrahim may be groomed for political leadership. There are also some
similarities between Assoc Prof Dr Muhammad Faishal Ibrahim and Dr Yaacob
Ibrahim in that both are PhD holders and hail from academic backgrounds.