‘Targeted moves in Cabinet reshuffle hint at early GE’

Commenting on the latest Cabinet reshuffle, SMU Associate Professor of Law Eugene Tan said: “If the [Prime Minister] is looking at elections in the year 2016, I would argue that he would be likely to have embarked on a [major] reshuffle … he would have gone for more changes ... [but] it was very limited and targeted.” Associate Prof Tan added that should the PAP decide to hold the election soon after Mr Lee Kuan Yew’s death last month, some people might perceive it as trying to gain an “illegitimate political advantage” that rides on his passing.