Singapore’s next prime minister: what’s taking so Loong?

Singapore is officially in a political silly season – and elections are not even due until 2021. Speculation on who will replace Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong went into overdrive last week when the 65-year-old’s latest comments suggested the selection process within the ruling People’s Action Party (PAP) was still going on and no obvious successor had emerged.  Tongues had already been wagging for months over the opacity of the so-called succession question…