Few people know who they all are.
PAP MP K. Shanmugam likens the biennial party elections to cardinals in the Vatican choosing a pope. Predictably the opposition does not see it quite that way. The PAP was formed in 1954 as an alliance of leftists and moderates against British colonial rule. But the party's pro-communist faction split off in 1961. Two years later, more than 100 leftists, including a number of former PAP members, were arrested.