Lee Kuan Yew was in fact Singapore's first Opposition leader.
Monday, 25 February 2019 Let’s take a short trip down memory lane, and look at what history has to say about LKY being in the opposition once upon a time. History tells us that Lee Kuan Yew wasn’t just a member of the opposition, but in fact, for a period of time, he was its leader. In Singapore, the Leader of the Opposition is the head of the second biggest political party that has Members of Parliament serving as legislators at a given time.
With the inclusion of independent MP Ahmad Ibrahim, PAP was the largest opposition party with 4 seats out of 32 seats In his memoirs The Singapore Story , Lee said that he sat opposite then Chief Minister Marshall, ‘Although the PAP had only three members in the Assembly plus Ahmad Ibrahim, the Speaker, Sir George Oehlers, placed me where the leader of the opposition would normally be seated, facing the chief minister’.” The rest, as they say, is history.
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