Tharman Shanmugaratnam: Singapore picks a president who could've been much more

Singaporeans have chosen Tharman Shanmugaratnam as their next president. The election was seen partly as a referendum on the PAP, which has suffered rare political scandals recently. Mr Tharman's landslide win can be largely attributed to his personal popularity which has always outstripped the PAP's, it also "shows that the party brand is not so toxic such that the association with it drags a person down", noted Walid Jumblatt Abdullah, an assistant professor in social sciences at NTU.

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