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Lawrence Wong

Prime Minister of Singapore since 2024

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 18, 2026
Entity authoritySource title only
Source-derived summary

Lawrence Wong Shyun Tsai is a Singaporean politician and civil servant who has served as the fourth prime minister of Singapore since 2024. A member of the People's Action Party (PAP), he has also served as a Member of Parliament (MP) for Marsiling–Yew Tee Group Representation Constituency (GRC) since 2015 and the minister of finance since 2021. He was an MP for West Coast GRC from 2011 to 2015.

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Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Lawrence Wong” is prime Minister of Singapore since 2024. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Lawrence, Wong and Prime, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2024, 2015, 2021, 2011—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, Lawrence, Wong and Prime is the immediate research focus.
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This entry incorporates text from “Lawrence Wong” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.