Singapore is a unitary parliamentary republic in Southeast Asia. The President of Singapore serves as head of state while the Prime Minister heads the government, and the unicameral Parliament of Singapore holds legislative power.
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1. Freedom House: Singapore (Freedom in the World 2025)
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Singapore's parliamentary political system has been dominated by the ruling People's Action Party (PAP) and the powerful Lee family since 1959.
2. Singapore (Wikipedia)
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9 August 1965
Practices: Unitary State, Infobox: government_type
Unitary parliamentary republic
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Unitary parliamentary republic
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Singapore is a representative democratic parliamentary republic in which the president is the head of state and the prime minister is the head of government.
Governed By: Lawrence Wong Government, Lead paragraph
the president is the head of state and the prime minister is the head of government
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