Singapore’s President Tharman Shanmugaratnam dissolved the Parliament on Tuesday (April 15), paving the way for the country's general election to be held on May 3.
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00:00Singapore's President Tharman Shanmugaratnam dissolved the parliament on Tuesday, paving
00:07the way for the country's general election to be held on May 3.
00:11He said he had been advised by Prime Minister Lawrence Wong on the dissolution.
00:15Wong said he then issued a writ of election, with the Elections Department setting nomination
00:20day on April 23 and polling day on May 3.
00:24He said the world is becoming more uncertain and unsettled, and the global conditions that
00:29enabled Singapore's success over the past decades may no longer hold.
00:34He said that is the reason why he had called the election where voters would decide on the
00:39team to lead Singapore.
00:41This will be Singapore's 14th general election since its independence, and the first under
00:46Wong's leadership as Prime Minister.
00:49Wong took over from long-serving Premier Li Xianlong as head of the Ruling People's Action
00:54Party in May last year.
00:56The polls will see 97 lawmakers elected, four more than in 2020.