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Lee Kuan Yew on the Comeback Trail?
***Recent pronouncements by former Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew have raised speculations that the Grand Old Man of Singapore politics is ready to take charge again. Surya Gangadharan of IPS reports from Singapore.
FORMER Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew's recent statements urging the promotion of Chinese language and culture have raised speculations of the reemergence of the Singapore strongman
Lee. who has stayed In the shadows during the one year that his hand-picked successor. Goh Chok Tong, has been in office, has lately been making policy suggestions and statements that have been seen here as significant.
Some analysis have inferred that Lee is on the comeback trail.
They forecast the Imminent poliUcal demise of Goh and the rise of Lee's son. Lee Hslen-Loong. a deputy prime minister in Goh's cabinet.
The starling point of these arguments is the August elections held under Goh's stewardship. in which the ruling People's Action Party (PAP) lost a substantial margin of votes among the dominant Chinese. Though the PAP won 61 per cent of the popular vote, it was way down the 68 per cent it chalked up in 1988.
This was seen as a setback of Goh who had staked his nine-month performance as Lee’s successor to secure a mandate. But he appears to have misread the situation. His open, consultative style did not bring the kind of victory he hoped for.
It was the election of two Chinese-educated graduates on opposition tickets that got the PAP worried, according to an analyst
Both winning candidates were from the now defunct Chlnese-language Nanyang University and their election was seen as a sign of growing discontent among lower-Income Singapore Chinese
"It was a discontent that could not be ignored", said the analyst. "It Implied that the PAP had ignored bread-and-butter Issues and become elitist." Lee has used this crisis In the ruling party, of which he to the secretary-general, as a platform to launch his prescriptions for the future of PAP.
Lee believes the PAP by emphasising Chinese culture and language can woo back to the ruling party the "Chinese grassroots" — the Chinese-ed-ucatcd Chinese majority which form the lower-income sectors of Singapore society.
Chinese-educated
Singaporeans were left out during the 1970's In Singapore s vigorous drive to industrialise — promoted by Lee himself — in which English-language qualifications became the door to a better life.
Graduates from Chinese-language schools had great difficulty finding Jobs. The government was forced to phase out Chlnese-language schools because of the demand for English.
"Those who are Chinese-educated...feel deep down In their hearts that they have been sidelined, that they would have done better It they had learnt English first," said There Is considerable public dissatisfaction with the rising cost of health care (up by nearly 10 per cent), education (6.8 per cent) and public transport (19 per cent), according to analysts.
"Government's Job is to improve their educational capabilities... train them for specific, high-Income Jobs," Lee said.
He has called for a survey of the age and educational problems of shopkeepers and suggested that Chlnese-language clan associations be given more government funds to reinvigorate them.
But speculations that Lee's sudden interest in strengthening the PAP is an attempt to stage a comeback to "needlessly cynical", according to an analyst
Lee initiated the process of building up a second tier of leadership in the PAP about seven years ago. Goh may not have been his first choice, but he took Goh's political initiation in hand.
What worries Lee more now. according to the analyst. Is how. despite the wide network of PAP community organisations. the wrong signals went to the leadership. As a party cadre said, "who told them the ground was sweet? Not us".
He claimed the complaints about the rising cost of living were never taken up by the party leadership, which means the party has taken a backseat to the government and the powerful bureaucracy.
Lee as party boss, is likel) to Initiate a thorough restructuring. according to the party cadre. Grassroots party activists may be given more leeway than they have before.
At a time of so much generational change within its ranks, the PAP will be looking to Lee for guidance. Singapore's Grand Old Man Is going to be. around, not in the driver's seat perhaps, but somewhere close to it.