New Singapore party calls for end to 'elite' rule (AFP)

SINGAPORE (AFP) - A new political party has called for an end to rule by an elite minority in Singapore, and rejected accusations the opposition would quickly ruin the country if it took power. The Reform Party was responding to a recent warning to voters by Singapore's founding father Lee Kuan Yew against putting the opposition at the helm of government "in a moment of fickleness or just sheer madness." "Let me say from here to Mr. Lee Kuan Yew, that that is crass arrogance on his part," said the party's secretary general, J.B. Jeyaretnam in a speech to inaugurate the party late Friday. "I tell him from here, tonight: We've had enough of a minority, of the elite, making all our decisions." Lee, 84, is widely credited for shepherding the underdeveloped port into one of Asia's wealthiest nations in one generation. His People's... [read full story]