Institution

People's Action Party

1954 · 20th century

The People's Action Party is a political party in Singapore, founded in 1954 by Lee Kuan Yew and others, at first in alliance with left-wing trade unionists. It won the 1959 elections that brought self-government, led Singapore into Malaysia in 1963 and out again in 1965, and has governed the country without interruption since 1959.

People's Action Party
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The Epoch Institute. (2026). People's Action Party. In The Epoch Institute Encyclopedia. https://the-epoch-institute.org/encyclopedia/peoples-action-party
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