“We will do this carefully and deliberately,” Lee said. “I am already 70 and I am looking forward to handing over to Lawrence once he is ready.”
Singapore has not yet settled on a timeline as to when Finance Minister Lawrence Wong will take over the reins from Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong as the city-state’s next premier.
This decision will be based in part on what would help the party win the next election, Lee said in a press conference on Saturday, April 16, two days after Wong was named chief of the so-called fourth-generation leadership team.
