This GE to seek mandate beyond SG50: PM Lee
PM Lee Hsien Loong. TODAY file photo.
SINGAPORE — Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong has made another call for Singaporeans to support him and his team to take Singapore beyond SG50.
Shortly after the Writ of Election issued by President Tony Tan Keng Yam was announced this afternoon (Aug 25), Mr Lee posted on his Facebook page saying he has called for this general election to seek a mandate to take Singapore "into its next half century".
"You will be deciding who will govern Singapore for the next 5 years. More than that, you will be choosing the team to work with you for the next 15-20 years, and setting the direction for Singapore for the next 50 years," he wrote.
Reiterating what he'd said in his National Day Rally speech on Sunday, Mr Lee said: "If you are proud of what we have achieved together, and support what we want to do for our future, please support me and my team. We have to do it with you, in order to do it for you, and for Singapore."
"What we have achieved together in Singapore is special. Here many races live in peace, and many from humble homes make good. We will surely meet challenges ahead, but whatever the world throws at us, as one people, we will overcome."
