Coupled with the decline in public trust in the PAP since the watershed election of 2011 and the government’s mismanagement of the COVID-19 pandemic, it remains to be seen if the PAP can weather this storm.
The recent spate of scandals is likely to hurt the PAP’s chances in the next general election, which will be due by the end of 2025. In 2020, Iswaran’s West Coast Group Representation Constituency was held by only 1.7 per cent after his PAP team suffered a 26 per cent swing against it. After the PAP’s surprise loss of the Sengkang constituency in that election, there is a real possibility that it may not hold onto the West Coast constituency in the next election. Coupled with the decline in public trust in the PAP since the watershed election of 2011 and the government’s mismanagement of the COVID-19 pandemic, it remains to be seen if the PAP can weather this storm.
