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Ong Teng Cheong [a] GCMG (22 January 1936 – 8 February 2002) was a Singaporean politician, architect, and union leader who served as the fifth president of Singapore from 1993 to 1999. He was the first directly elected president in Singapore's history. [ 1 ]
The People's Action Party (PAP) is a major conservative [ 11 ][ 12 ] political party of the centre-right [ 13 ] in Singapore. It is one of the three contemporary political parties represented in the Parliament of Singapore, alongside the opposition Workers' Party (WP) and the Progress Singapore Party (PSP). [ 14 ][ 15 ] Initially founded as a ...
Ong Teng Cheong: A former member of the governing People's Action Party, he was the Chairman of the People's Action Party and served as Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Labour and was the Member of Parliament (MP) of Toa Payoh GRC between 1988 and 1993 and Kim Keat SMC between 1972 and 1988. He had resigned as Deputy Prime Minister and ...
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The PAP continued to win all seats for the next three general elections from 1972 to 1980. 49 In the 1972 general election, the party garnered 69 percent of the votes cast. It fielded 11 new candidates, including future president Ong Teng Cheong.
From 1972 to 1991, Ong served as a People’s Action Party (PAP) MP for the Kim Keat constituency. His first political appointment came barely three years after being elected, when he was made ...
Feb 8, 2002 · Ong Teng Cheong (b. 22 January 1936, Singapore–d. 8 February 2002, Singapore) was the fifthpresident of Singaporeand the first to beelected into office. He was sworn in as president on 1 September 1993. An architect by training, Ong served as a People’s Action Party (PAP) member of parliament (MP) for over two decades, and held at various ...
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In August 1993, Mr Ong resigned from the post of an MP to contest in the country's first Elected Presidency. His promotion to the Cabinet (as a Minister) Mr Ong was first asked by the Government to take up ministerial office in 1973. Mr Ong had declined to do so as his younger brother was dying of cancer.
