Abbreviation YP Location Singapore Affiliations People's Action Party | Formation 1986 Chairman Chan Chun Sing | |
Website www.pap.org.sg/young-pap | ||
The Young PAP (YP) is the youth-wing of Singapore's governing People's Action Party (PAP), and serves as a youth organisation for young adults and students in Singapore who support the ruling party and have an interest in politics.
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The Chairman of the group as of 2014 is Chan Chun Sing. Past leaders include the incumbent Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong, and former Minister for Foreign Affairs George Yeo.
Overview
The YP's predecessor, the PAP Youth Committee was established in 1986, under the chairmanship of Lee Hsien Loong, then a Singapore Armed Forces brigadier general. All PAP members under the age of 35 were grouped under the Youth Committee. In 1993, the Youth Committee was renamed the Young PAP. The then-chairman of the Committee, George Yeo, in an effort to attract members, said that people joining the YP could take positions different from central party leadership. The age limit was raised from 35 to 40.
Structure
The Young PAP comes with the following appointments, with the current chairman as Chan Chun Sing: