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Dr Teo said the latest departure leaves gaps in the Cabinet line-up, with the government now two men short following the exits of Assoc Prof Faishal and former Senior Minister of State Koh Poh Koon, <\/span>who stepped down in May this year for family reasons<\/span>.<\/span><\/p>\n Some may view this as a test of the government’s ability to deliver on its election promises, she said.<\/span><\/p>\n MPs in the affected GRC also have to cover larger areas and more constituents, she added. “If these alternative arrangements fall short in any way, the public\u2019s view of the party might be adversely affected.”<\/span><\/p>\n Assoc Prof Eugene Tan said the case could speed up the party’s renewal process, particularly for minority representation.<\/span><\/p>\n “A reshuffle could be used to signal that the 4G team is not lacking in breadth and depth of experience and expertise. It will allow (Mr Wong) to induct new blood as well.”<\/span><\/p>\n Mr Malminderjit Singh, founder and managing director of political consultancy Terra Corporate Affairs, said the PAP would likely already be preparing for new candidates, including those from the Malay-Muslim community, to join their ranks at the next election.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n However, Assoc Prof Faishal and Dr Koh’s departures may necessitate a mid-term cabinet reshuffle or new appointments sooner rather than later, and may see some backbenchers promoted to take on political office, Mr Singh said.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n GAPS IN 4G? Dr Teo said the latest departure leaves gaps in the Cabinet line-up, with the government now two men short following the exits…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":70267,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/dam.mediacorp.sg\/image\/upload\/s--gZLZrBFZ--\/c_fill,g_auto,h_676,w_1200\/fl_relative,g_south_east,l_mediacorp:cna:watermark:2021-08:cna,w_0.1\/f_auto,q_auto\/v1\/mediacorp\/cna\/image\/2025\/08\/28\/_WAL4786.jpg?itok=rqj77RhT","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[904,596,4035,16891,26861,766,7844,14787,7438,26860,7084],"class_list":["post-70266","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-buzz-news-sg-global","tag-analysts","tag-case","tag-chip","tag-faishal","tag-indiscretions","tag-moved","tag-pap","tag-partys","tag-reputation","tag-string","tag-swiftly","wpcat-2-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70266","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=70266"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70266\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/70267"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=70266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=70266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=70266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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