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Nov 27, 2010
PAP meets to elect central exec committee
A handful of new faces expected in fresh line-up
By Zakir Hussain
CADRES of the ruling People's Action Party (PAP) will be meeting tomorrow to elect its new central executive committee (CEC).
This will be the last party conference before the next General Election, which has to take place by February 2012.
To be held at the University Cultural Centre auditorium, the biennial gathering will likely be attended by more than 1,000 party cadres.
The PAP has never revealed its actual number of cadres.
MPs and branch secretaries contacted by The Straits Times expect the new CEC line-up to remain very similar to the current one, with the possible exception of a handful of new faces.
These could be newer ministers such as Transport Minister Raymond Lim, Law and Home Affairs Minister K. Shanmugam, and Information, Communications and the Arts Minister Lui Tuck Yew, who are currently not on the CEC.
At the last election to the CEC in 2008, the cadres picked 12 members - all Cabinet ministers - from a list of 19 nominees in a secret ballot.
They are, in alphabetical order: Senior Minister Goh Chok Tong, Health Minister Khaw Boon Wan, Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong, Minister Mentor Lee Kuan Yew, Ministers in the Prime Minister's Office Lim Boon Heng and Lim Swee Say, Deputy Prime Minister Teo Chee Hean, Finance Minister Tharman Shanmugaratnam, Community Development, Youth and Sports Minister Vivian Balakrishnan, Deputy Prime Minister Wong Kan Seng, Environment and Water Resources Minister Yaacob Ibrahim, and Foreign Minister George Yeo.
National Development Minister Mah Bow Tan and now Minister in the Prime Minister's Office Lim Hwee Hua, both got the next highest vote shares and were co-opted into the CEC at the conference.
Another four were co-opted later. They are Education Minister Ng Eng Hen, Manpower Minister Gan Kim Yong, Senior Parliamentary Secretary Teo Ser Luck and Deputy Speaker Indranee Rajah.
Going by past conferences, there will be about six speakers at the conference, ranging from veteran MPs to younger MPs and party activists.
PM Lee will deliver the closing address.
Jurong GRC MP Halimah Yacob said MPs will be listening closely to what he has to say.
'One expects a certain amount of review of developments in the past few years, but also a sense of the future direction of the party in the coming months and years,' she said.
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PAP meets to elect central exec committee
A handful of new faces expected in fresh line-up
By Zakir Hussain
CADRES of the ruling People's Action Party (PAP) will be meeting tomorrow to elect its new central executive committee (CEC).
This will be the last party conference before the next General Election, which has to take place by February 2012.
To be held at the University Cultural Centre auditorium, the biennial gathering will likely be attended by more than 1,000 party cadres.
The PAP has never revealed its actual number of cadres.
MPs and branch secretaries contacted by The Straits Times expect the new CEC line-up to remain very similar to the current one, with the possible exception of a handful of new faces.
These could be newer ministers such as Transport Minister Raymond Lim, Law and Home Affairs Minister K. Shanmugam, and Information, Communications and the Arts Minister Lui Tuck Yew, who are currently not on the CEC.
At the last election to the CEC in 2008, the cadres picked 12 members - all Cabinet ministers - from a list of 19 nominees in a secret ballot.
They are, in alphabetical order: Senior Minister Goh Chok Tong, Health Minister Khaw Boon Wan, Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong, Minister Mentor Lee Kuan Yew, Ministers in the Prime Minister's Office Lim Boon Heng and Lim Swee Say, Deputy Prime Minister Teo Chee Hean, Finance Minister Tharman Shanmugaratnam, Community Development, Youth and Sports Minister Vivian Balakrishnan, Deputy Prime Minister Wong Kan Seng, Environment and Water Resources Minister Yaacob Ibrahim, and Foreign Minister George Yeo.
National Development Minister Mah Bow Tan and now Minister in the Prime Minister's Office Lim Hwee Hua, both got the next highest vote shares and were co-opted into the CEC at the conference.
Another four were co-opted later. They are Education Minister Ng Eng Hen, Manpower Minister Gan Kim Yong, Senior Parliamentary Secretary Teo Ser Luck and Deputy Speaker Indranee Rajah.
Going by past conferences, there will be about six speakers at the conference, ranging from veteran MPs to younger MPs and party activists.
PM Lee will deliver the closing address.
Jurong GRC MP Halimah Yacob said MPs will be listening closely to what he has to say.
'One expects a certain amount of review of developments in the past few years, but also a sense of the future direction of the party in the coming months and years,' she said.
[email protected]
