Andrew Wood, the Singapore-based head of Asia country risk analysis at BMI Research, said he expected “the PAP to achieve approximately the same share of the popular vote that it garnered in 2011, or around 60%”.
The PAP has been “very transparent about the fact that a slowdown in immigration inflows would blunt economic growth, and this is exactly what has transpired”, he said. In Wood’s view, the party has struck a good balance between answering the public calls to reduce the inflow while maintaining a healthy economy.