Finance Minister Heng Swee Keat is set to be named by the People’s Action Party (PAP) as its first assistant secretary-general tomorrow, paving the way for him to succeed Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong as the country’s top leader, Today reports.
The newly elected PAP Central Executive Committee (CEC) — the party’s highest decision-making body — is also expected to meet then to decide its office bearers, but the party sources said the choices for the assistant secretary-general posts — which are the party’s second-in-command positions — have been settled. Mr Heng, 57, is set to be the first assistant secretary-general, with Trade and Industry Minister Chan Chun Sing, 49, named as the second assistant secretary-general.
