'Tharman4President is a significant downgrade from Tharman4PM. What a waste of his caliber. Sigh,' a netizen commented
"Tharman4President is a significant downgrade from Tharman4PM. What a waste of his caliber. Sigh," a netizen commented
However, both PM Lee and his late father – Singapore’s founding Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew – have publicly said they don’t feel Singapore is ready for a non-Chinese PM. In March 2019, Heng Swee Keat – who had been identified as PM Lee’s successor at the time – echoed this sentiment as he spoke to students at a Nanyang Technological University forum. When asked whether it is Singapore or the PAP that is not ready for a non-Chinese PM, Mr Heng asserted that the older generation is not prepared to accept a minority PM.
A Blackbox survey commissioned by Yahoo Singapore confirmed the results of our poll. In that survey, 69 per cent of 897 respondents said they would support Tharman as a candidate to become prime minister. When asked in 2016 to comment on the Yahoo poll that identified him as the top choice to be Singapore’s fourth PM, Mr Tharman said: “Just to be absolutely clear, because I know of this talk that’s going around, I’m not the man for PM. I say that categorically. It’s not me. I know myself, I know what I can do, and it’s not me.”
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