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🔴Friday April 9th 2021 🔵2021年4月9日星期五 🔱Espresso - Today’s agenda 每日濃縮 - 今日頭條 🇸🇬Rules of succession: Singapore’s next prime minister 接班繼承：新加坡的下一任總理 Singaporean politics received a jolt yesterday, when Heng Swee Keat, the heir apparent to the prime minister, Lee Hsien Loong, announced that he would not take the top job after all. Succession in Singapore is normally planned years in advance by the grandees of the People’s Action Party, which led the country to independence in 1965 and has governed ever since. But they failed to foresee that Mr Heng, an accomplished technocrat, lacked the skills of a retail politician (though he says he is resigning because he will be too old for the job once he gets it). In the last election, he won his constituency by just 53%—a humiliating blow. The favourite to replace him is Chan Chun Sing, the pugnacious trade minister, who at 51 is a whippersnapper. While the PAP debates the succession, Mr Lee has manfully agreed to stay in power for as long as it takes to find a replacement. 被普遍視為新加坡 (現任) 總理李顯龍接班人選的副總理王瑞杰 (Heng Swee Keat) 在昨天宣佈不再擔任 (下屆執政團隊的) 領導要職，此為星國政壇投下了震撼彈。新加坡政壇的接班人馬通常會由人民行動黨 (該黨自 1965年領導新加坡從馬來西亞聯邦獨立以來便長期執政至今) 的大佬們事先規劃好，但他們顯然沒有預料到王瑞杰這樣經驗充沛的技術官僚其實缺乏與選民搏感情的能力 (縱使王瑞杰聲稱其辭職的原因是出於接班的年歲已高)。在上次選舉中，他只在其選區拿到 53%的選票，(對人民行動黨來說) 此實為非常難堪的一擊。有望取代他的人選是手段強硬、態度傲慢，現年 51歲的貿易和工業部長陳振聲 (Chan Chun Sing)。現任的李顯龍已經在人民行動黨之接班人辯論中，果斷地同意將繼續執政、直到找出接班人為止。 ⚜️Daily takeaway⚜️ 每日單字精選 ✅Succession (n.): 接替、繼承 (名) ✅Heir apparent (n.): 繼承人、接班人 (名) ✅In advance (adv.): 提前、事先 (副) ✅Independence (n.): 獨立 (名) ✅Foresee (v.): 預料、預見 (動) ✅Technocrat (n.): 技術官僚 (名) ✅Constituency (n.): 選區 (名) ✅Pugnacious (adj.): 好鬥的 (形) ✅Replacement (n.): 替代、替補 (名) — ✔︎ 按讚【每日一經濟學人】Facebook 粉專：https://reurl.cc/Lddode ✔︎ 追蹤【每日一經濟學人】Instagram 帳號：https://reurl.cc/Oqqoq3 ✔︎ 訂閱【每日一經濟學人】YouTube 頻道：https://reurl.cc/Y665dX ✔︎ 閱讀【每日一經濟學人】Medium 平台：https://reurl.cc/k00WZr — 🔶如有商業合作或業務需求，請洽：[email protected] 🔴如影音內容有誤，歡迎來信勘誤：[email protected] -- Hosting provided by SoundOn