On 28 November 1990 forty-nine-year-old Goh Chok Tong became Singapore's second prime minister since self-government was instituted in 1959, with the former leader, sixty-seven-year-old Lee Kuan Yew, assuming the post of senior minister in the new cabinet. This transfer of power was the culmination of a decade of self-renewal and preparation within the ruling People's Action Party (PAP) as a new generation of leaders assumed the mantle. Indeed, following the 1988 general election, the only first-generation PAP leader left in the government was Lee himself.
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