SMU Associate Professor of Law Eugene Tan said that, “the PAP realises that it has to campaign as a political party and not as the ruling party or the government. For too long, PAP as the political party and PAP as the government were conflated. One consequence is that the Government's shortcomings become imputed to the PAP. In essence, it seeks to refresh itself, and the resolution can be likened to the party's mid-term manifesto: A road map for the rest of the Parliament's term”. He was referring to the PAP's political recalibration announced on Sunday by Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong.