{"id":93962,"date":"2025-03-27T22:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-03-27T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sg-all-in-1.com\/?p=93962"},"modified":"2025-03-27T22:00:00","modified_gmt":"2025-03-27T14:00:00","slug":"ge2025-why-singapores-high-flying-bureaucrats-are-recruited-into-politics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sg-all-in-1.com\/?p=93962","title":{"rendered":"GE2025: Why Singapore&#8217;s high-flying bureaucrats are recruited into politics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In recent weeks, top ministry officials have resigned, fuelling speculation they could be fielded as potential candidates for the ruling People&#8217;s Action Party in the 2025 General Election.<a href=\"https:\/\/www.channelnewsasia.com\/singapore\/ge2025-civil-servants-public-service-politics-candidates-pap-5015676\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In recent weeks, top ministry officials have resigned, fuelling speculation they could be fielded as potential candidates for the ruling People&#8217;s Action Party in the 2025 General Election.Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[4],"class_list":["post-93962","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sgnews","tag-cna"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sg-all-in-1.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93962","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sg-all-in-1.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sg-all-in-1.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sg-all-in-1.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=93962"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.sg-all-in-1.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93962\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sg-all-in-1.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=93962"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sg-all-in-1.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=93962"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sg-all-in-1.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=93962"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}