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Singapore ’s Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong has said younger ministers tasked with picking someone among themselves to take over from him needed “a little longer” to make a decision, with a successor likely to be named well before elections due in 2025. Lee has sparingly discussed the issue of succession this year, after the previous heir apparent, Deputy Prime Minister Heng Swee Keat, bowed out in April . Heng’s decision, as well as a pledge by Lee during elections last year to see out the Covid-19 pandemic as prime minister , has meant a power transition initially scheduled to...
