People's Action Party is controlled by only a small clique of
people at the top.
Most party members have no influence over policy.
The ringleader is Lee Kuan Yew.
After the Lim Chin Siong debacle, Lee Kuan Yew would only
recruit those who will kowtow to his dictates into the party.
Those who do not kowtow, he will never recruit, otherwise
factions will appear and split the party.
...These developments
precipitated an open split between Lee and Lim Chin Siong. Lim's
group suspected – correctly – that Lee was up to no good in his
pursuit of merger with Malaysia and they openly called for the
abolition of the ISC.
In July 1961, legislative assemblymen, parliamentary/organising
secretaries, and members of the PAP split from the party and formed
the Barisan Sosialis. Lee's party was shaved to bare
bones.
At the time, Harper writes, "there was an immense political
momentum, a sense that the future lay with the Barisan
Sosialis."
Even then, Lim Chin Siong never wavered in his commitment to
governing Singapore in a democratic way when he wrote in a press
statement that "any constitutional arrangement must not mean a
setback for the people in terms of freedom and democracy."
This contrasts with the PAP's demonisation of Lim as a front for
the communist out to destroy the democratic way...
http://singaporedemocrat.org/articlelimchinsionghistory_part2.html
So, I think it will be hard for factions to appear in PAP after
Lee Kuan Yew is dead.
I think most people in PAP are not politicians but managers,
they have no passion or desire for politics, so this may bring
about downfall of PAP when Lee Kuan Yew finally dies.
成也蕭何，敗也蕭何.
PAP rise due to Lee Kuan Yew, PAP fall also due to Lee Kuan
Yew.
It is time Lee Kuan Yew.
It is time.
