actually 1 party majority govt still fine if they are humble and willing to admit mistakes and care for the peasants.
last time LKY he come up with hard policies but his reasons are convincing thats why even hardcore oppo respect him.
but nowadays the PAP like to push the blame here and there and sweep under the carpet. Sometimes people would be fine with just hearing a simple "Sorry, it is our oversight and we will do better next time". But no, they cannot even put down their ego to do that simply, want to push the blame away and say is not their fault, or find some lame excuse to cover up but then backtrack on the excuse because they realize no one is buying into the lame excuse.
Honestly speaking, 1 party system will still lead to negative consequences in the long run e.g Russia under Putin. Or now, starting to be Turkey under Erdogan.
For example, 1 party rule may suit a country like Argentina or El Salvador previously because they need a strongman to unite them under current circumstances.
It is positive when the society is unstable and state of upheaval e.g internal strife or war, etc.
Same goes for those African countries and E.g Myanmar, etc. where they are being divided amongst warlords and their respective factions.
The European countries that gained independence from Soviet's sphere of influence all began to prosper after choosing Democracy. Only Belarus is still left behind, due to their 1 party rule.
SG is right now 1 of the few, if not the only developed country that has a 1 party supermajority.
Last time, the 1G cabinet ministers like Devan Nair, Ong Teng Cheong, Toh Chin Chye, Lim Kan San and Goh Keng Swee, etc. all had a willing heart to serve the people and also at the same time, shared power along with LKY.
Once they all no longer there, then LKY's dominance started. It was then PAP started to declined then the rich-poor income inequality started to grow. There was a reason why JBJ got elected as an opposition MP.
Then, they started to come out with all sorts of tactics e.g Town Councils structure and GRCs, etc. to keep their dominance. They also tightly controlled the state media and also brought the union under them.
All these practices continued until today.
PAP just wants to keep a supermajority at all costs, think even 70% not enough for them. They will only be happy if they have 75% of seats or more.
Honestly speaking, looking at other countries. For example e.g the likes of Switzerland/Austria/Belgium/Luxembourg/Liechtenstein/Italy and the Nordic Countries, etc. They are examples of coalition governments being able to function well too.
Looking at within Asia, even Japan's ruling party LDP only has 41% of seats now, but because no other parties want to form a coalition with DPJ (2nd most seats) they are still the ruling party.
The fact DPJ did so badly during 2009-2012 and still alot of the people voted for them in last year's GE means that they are wiling to try to change too.
Japan still doing ok, and LDP's approval ratings just keeps going down due to scandals. Funny thing, their scandals are so minor compared to SG.
Their recent gift vouchers scandal is nothing compared to the Ridout road/Allianz-NTUC/Tracetogether/YOG overspending issues, etc. and yet the Japanese people are already not happy
PAP just want to justify keeping their supermajority at all costs.
The total no. of seats in upcoming GE is 97, perhaps they can win 49 seats and opposition win 48.
They still have a majority of the seats (as is more than 50%). Most important is opposition having 1/3 of the seats so that they can block bills
