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Multiple elections allowed President Lee Kuan Yew of Singapore to stay in power for 31 years. How free and fair were these elections? Was he legitimately popular, or just adroit at using the levers of government power to undermine his opponents?

by /u/RusticBohemian in /r/AskHistorians

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