People's Action Party

The **People's Action Party** (**PAP**) is a large centre-right political party in Singapore. It is one of two main parties in the Parliament of Singapore, with the other being the Workers' Party. It was started in 1954 and supported Singapore being independent from Malaysia. It has been in charge of Singapore since the 1959 general election.

## Leadership

The current chairman of the PAP is Deputy Prime Minister Heng Swee Keat. The current secretary general is the current Prime Minister of Singapore Lee Hsien Loong.

### List of Chairpersons

|width="15%"|Portrait|width="20%"|Name <small>(birth– death)</small>|colspan="2" width="40%"|Term of office|width="30%"|Time in office|
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
||align="center"|**Toh Chin Chye** <small>(10 December 1921 – 3 February 2012)</small>|21 November 1954|5 January 1981||||
||align="center"|**Ong Teng Cheong** <small>(22 January 1936 – 8 February 2002)</small>|5 January 1981|16 August 1993||||
||align="center"|**Tony Tan Keng Yam** <small>(born 7 February 1940)</small>|1 September 1993|3 December 2004||||
||align="center"|**Lim Boon Heng** <small>(born 18 November 1947)</small>|3 December 2004|1 June 2011||||
||align="center"|**Khaw Boon Wan** <small>(born 8 December 1952)</small>|1 June 2011|23 November 2018||||
||align="center"|**Gan Kim Yong** <small>(born 9 February 1959)</small>|23 November 2018|26 November 2022||||
||**Heng Swee Keat**<small>(born 15 April 1961)</small>|26 November 2022|_Incumbent_|||||

### List of Secretaries-General

|width="15%"|Portrait|width="20%"|Name <small>(birth–death)</small>|colspan="2" width="40%"|Term of office|width="30%"|Time in office|
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
||align="center"|**Lee Kuan Yew** <small>(16 September 1923 – 23 March 2015)</small>|21 November 1954|15 November 1992||||
||align="center"|**Goh Chok Tong** <small>(born 20 May 1941)</small>|15 November 1992|3 December 2004||||
||align="center"|**Lee Hsien Loong** <small>(born 10 February 1952)</small>|3 December 2004|_Incumbent_||||

### Central Executive Committee

As of 30 July 2023, the Central Executive Committee comprises the following members:
|Title|Name||
| --- | --- | --- |
|Chairman|Heng Swee Keat||
|Vice-Chairman|Masagos Zulkifli||
|Secretary-General|Lee Hsien Loong||
|Deputy Secretary-General|Lawrence Wong||
|rowspan="2"|Assistant Secretaries-General|Chan Chun Sing|
|Desmond Lee|||
|Treasurer|K. Shanmugam||
|Assistant Treasurer|Ong Ye Kung||
|rowspan="2"|Organising Secretaries|Grace Fu|
|Edwin Tong|||
|rowspan="8"|Members|Alex Yeo|
|Cheryl Chan|||
|Indranee Rajah|||
|Josephine Teo|||
|Ng Chee Meng|||
|Tan See Leng|||
|Vivian Balakrishnan|||

## Infobox (political party)

- **name**: People's Action Party
- **logo**: PAP logo variation.svg
- **logo size**: 200px
- **chairman**: Heng Swee Keat
- **secretary general**: Lee Hsien Loong
- **headquarters**: Block 57B New Upper Changi Road #01-1402 Singapore 463057
- **country**: Singapore
- **abbreviation**: PAP
- **colours**: White, red, blue
- **predecessor**: Malayan Forum
- **youth wing**: Young PAP
- **position**: Centre-right politics, Centre-right
- **slogan**: _Our Lives, Our Jobs, Our Future_
- **lang1**: Malay
- **name lang1**: __
- **lang2**: Chinese
- **name lang2**:
_Rénmín Xíngdòng Dǎng_
- **lang3**: Tamil
- **name lang3**:
_Makkaḷin Ceyal Kaṭci_
- **leader1 title**: Vice Chairman
- **leader1 name**: Masagos Zulkifli
- **leader2 title**: Deputy Secretary-General
- **leader2 name**: Lawrence Wong
- **leader3 title**: Assistant Secretaries-General
- **blank1 title**: Governing body
- **blank1**: Central Executive Committee (PAP), Central Executive Committee
- **seats1 title**: Parliament of Singapore, Parliament