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The PAP has held an overwhelming majority of seats in the Parliament of Singapore since 1966, when the opposition Barisan Sosialis ( Socialist Front ), a left-wing group that split from PAP in 1961, resigned from Parliament after winning 13 seats following the 1963 state elections, which took place months after a number of their leaders had been arrested in Operation Coldstore based on charges of being communists.
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The PAP has been in government and won every General Election since then.
It has also been alleged that the PAP employs censorship, gerrymandering and the filing of civil suits against the opposition for libel or slander to impede their success.
Although Singapore's laws are inherited from British and British Indian laws, including many elements of English common law, the PAP has also consistently rejected liberal democratic values, which it typifies as Western and states that there should not be a ' one-size-fits-all ' solution to a democracy.
The PAP has been the dominant political party in Singapore, re-elected continuously since 1959.
PAP has held the overwhelming majority of seats in parliament since 1966, when the opposition Barisan Sosialis Party resigned from parliament and left the PAP as the sole representative party.
The People's Action Party ( abbrev: PAP ; ; ; ) has been Singapore's ruling political party since 1959.
Since the 1963 general elections, the PAP has dominated Singapore's parliamentary democracy and has been central to the city-state's rapid political, social, and economic development.
The result was successful for the PAP under Lee Kuan Yew's control who won the 1959 election, and has held power ever since.
The PAP has a dual command structure including the Central Military Commission ( CMC ) and the State Council through the Ministry of Public Security.
Furthermore, due to its history with the PLA and paramilitary organisation, the PAP has a similar rank structure to the PLA and also obeys its general regulations.
However, the PAP has its own education and training system separate from the PLA.
Research in this area has concentrated almost exclusively on attempts to prove that the ejaculate is not urine, measuring substances such as urea, creatinine, prostatic acid phosphatase ( PAP ), prostate specific antigen ( PSA ), glucose and fructose
The presence of chemical markers such as PSA or PAP in the female genital tract has been considered evidence in rape trials, but Sensabaugh and Kahane demonstrated in four specimens that PAP was an order of magnitude greater in a woman's ejaculate than in her urine.
Local municipal police under the MPS used to be usually unarmed in contrast to the agents of the PAP ; however since 2006 decision has been taken to issue sidearms to all frontline MPS personnel ; the chosen firearm is a 9mm double-action revolver manufactured by the China North Industries Corporation.
Furthermore, research has shown that PAP side effects are rarely the reason patients stop using PAP.
In a recent epidemiologic study from Japan, Autoimmune PAP has an incidence and prevalence higher than previously reported and is not strongly linked to smoking, occupational exposure, or other illnesses.
The PAP exercises oversight, and has advisory and consultative powers, lasting for the first five years.
The current PAP candidate, Sitoh Yih Pin, has much support from the party, although the last PAP candidate, Andy Gan, failed in his bid to wrangle Potong Pasir from Chiam in the general election in 1997, even with the support the PAP gave him.
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The Pan-African Parliament ( PAP ), also known as the African Parliament, is the legislative body of the African Union and held its inaugural session in March 2004.
Under the new constitution, the general elections of 1959 were held and the SPA composed of former Labour Front members suffered a rout, losing to the PAP.
Singapore presently does not have a shadow cabinet in Parliament as the People's Action Party ( PAP ) has held an overwhelming majority of the seats in the House since it came to power in 1959.
A seat had been vacated in 1999 after the conviction of PAP MP Choo Wee Khiang over commercial crimes, but no by-election was held as the seat was within a GRC.
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The PAP's vote percentage of 75. 3 % signalled an overwhelming endorsement of the PAP to lead the nation out of the crisis that came at a time of great uncertainty over world security and the recession that came after 9 / 11.
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Marshall lost his seat in the assembly at the 1959 general election ( in which the PAP became the majority party and the Worker's Party did not win any seats ), but he returned in 1961 when he won a by-election in the constituency of Anson.
Yaw Shin Leong successfully retained the party stronghold of Hougang with a majority slightly under 65 %, while Low Thia Khiang, Sylvia Lim, Chen Show Mao, Muhamad Faisal Manap and Pritam Singh were victorious in Aljunied Group Representation Constituency, claiming 54. 71 % of the votes to unseat the incumbent PAP team which included two cabinet ministers, including the Foreign Minister George Yeo.
Article 22 of the PAP protocol provides for the Protocol to enter into force after deposit of the instruments of ratification by a simple majority of the member states.
PAP and seats
PAP won all of the seats in an expanding parliament in the general elections of 1968, 1972, 1976 and 1980.
In the 2011 Singapore general election, the PAP won 81 of the 87 constituency elected ( 99 total ) seats in the Parliament of Singapore while receiving 60. 14 % of total votes cast, the lowest share garnered since independence.
The PAP first contested the 1955 elections, in which 25 of 32 seats in the legislature were up for election.
The party won three seats, one by its leader Lee Kuan Yew, and one by co-founder of the PAP, Lim Chin Siong, the election going to the Workers Party's David Saul Marshall.
In the general elections of 1968, 1972, 1976, and 1980, the PAP won all of the seats in an expanding parliament.
While the PAP met most expectations to sweep into power and claim over two-thirds of parliamentary seats, it won 81 out of 87 seats, and lost Aljunied Group Representation Constituency to the Workers ' Party ( WP ), the first time a GRC was won by an opposition party.
Singapore became an independent country in 1965, and at the first post-independence general election in 1968, the People's Action Party ( PAP ) won all 51 of the seats in Parliament after the main opposition party at the time, the Barisan Sosialis, boycotted the elections.
Although the PAP contested nine Parliamentary seats and attracted large crowds at its rallies, it won only one seat.
Singapore became independent in 1965, and at the first post-independence general election in 1968, the PAP won all 58 of the seats in Parliament after the main opposition party at the time, the Barisan Sosialis, boycotted the elections.
* Parliamentary election, 2011: PAP won 60. 1 % of the popular vote and 81 ( of which 5 were uncontested ) out of 87 seats
But the party boycotted the first post-independence general election in 1968, allowing the PAP to win all 51 of the seats in Parliament.
In the by-elections for these vacant seats, the PAP had a clean sweep.
The PAP won the seats of Hong Kah North, Bishan-Toa Payoh GRC and Chiam's former seat of Potong Pasir.
The PAP had won 43 of 51 seats in the parliament with a popular vote of 53 % and had campaigned on an anti-colonialist platform with an ambition to initiate several reforms, improve the economy and living standards of the people and to eradicate corruption in the government.
Earlier, in what was seen by the PAP as a violation of previous agreements, UMNO backed and formed the Singapore Alliance Party, which ran for the 1963 state elections in Singapore on 21 September 1963, but failed to win any seats, even in Malay constituencies.
UMNO saw this as spite, and felt threatened by the fact that the PAP had even contested any seats at all, and was alarmed by the seat the PAP managed to win.
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