Singapore General Election in 2019 'always possible', Lee says

SINGAPORE (Nov 7): Singaporeans could go to the ballot boxes sooner than expected. A general election next year is "always possible".

Singapore Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong told Bloomberg Editor-in-Chief John Micklethwait in an interview at the New Economy Forum in Singapore. Polls must be held by early 2021.

"There are many reasons to bring elections forward, or not, so we’ll see,” Lee said late Tuesday, when asked if celebrations to mark the 200th year of the city-state’s modern founding would be reason enough to advance it.

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