{"id":25213,"date":"2026-01-02T17:58:45","date_gmt":"2026-01-02T09:58:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=25213"},"modified":"2026-01-02T17:58:45","modified_gmt":"2026-01-02T09:58:45","slug":"transition-in-full-swing-the-4g-leaderships-direction-and-budget-2026-priorities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=25213","title":{"rendered":"Transition in full swing: The 4G leadership\u2019s direction and Budget 2026 priorities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<p>With the election over, the focus may be on long-term issues such as climate change and the ageing population<\/p>\n<div data-testid=\"article-body-container\">\n<p class=\"whitespace-pre-wrap break-words mb-4 md:mb-6\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-component\">[SINGAPORE] The year 2025 may be remembered as solidifying Singapore\u2019s transition to its fourth-generation (4G) leadership. <\/p>\n<p class=\"whitespace-pre-wrap break-words mb-4 md:mb-6\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-component\">This year should bring a clearer sense of the 4G team\u2019s priorities, with its <a class=\"text-verticals-btblue underline\" data-testid=\"article-annotation-link-component\" href=\"https:\/\/www.businesstimes.com.sg\/singapore\/singapore-review-longer-term-economic-strategies-amid-new-tariff-tech-matrix-dpm-gan\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">economic strategy review to be completed by mid-year<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"whitespace-pre-wrap break-words mb-4 md:mb-6\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-component\">The city-state\u2019s leadership transition officially began when Prime Minister Lawrence Wong <a class=\"text-verticals-btblue underline\" data-testid=\"article-annotation-link-component\" href=\"https:\/\/www.businesstimes.com.sg\/singapore\/spotlight-1\/pm-wong-calls-singaporeans-support-each-other-help-his-government-take-country-forward\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">took the reins in May 2024<\/a>. But it was only a year later that he led the People\u2019s Action Party (PAP) in his first general election (GE) as PM \u2013 and to an improved vote share of 65.57 per cent, bucking the trend of new prime ministers seeing lower vote shares.<\/p>\n<div data-testid=\"article-btg-newsletter-component\" class=\"border-t border-gray-175 py-3\">\n<div>\n<p class=\"font-lucida text-xl font-medium italic leading-normal -tracking-5% text-gray-850\">Decoding Asia newsletter: your guide to navigating Asia in a new global order. <span class=\"inline border-none p-0 font-lucida text-inherit text-xl font-medium italic leading-normal !-tracking-5% text-verticals-btblue !underline outline-none\">Sign up here to get Decoding Asia newsletter.<\/span> Delivered to your inbox. Free.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.businesstimes.com.sg\/singapore\/transition-full-swing-4g-leaderships-direction-and-budget-2026-priorities\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article At Source <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With the election over, the focus may be on long-term issues such as climate change and the ageing population [SINGAPORE] The year 2025 may be&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":25214,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2611],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25213","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-buzz-headlines","wpcat-2611-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25213","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25213"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25213\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/25214"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}