<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1993_Singaporean_presidential_election" id="mwAWA" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="1993 Singaporean presidential election">Singaporean presidential election</a>: Former Deputy Prime Minister <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ong_Teng_Cheong" id="mwAWE" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Ong Teng Cheong">Ong Teng Cheong</a> is elected <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/President_of_Singapore" id="mwAWI" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="President of Singapore">President of Singapore</a>. Although it is the first presidential election to be determined by popular vote, the allowed candidates consist only of Ong and a reluctant whom the government had asked to run to confer upon the election the semblance of an opposition.<sup about="#mwt51" class="mw-ref reference" data-mw='{"name":"ref","attrs":{},"body":{"id":"mw-reference-text-cite_note-8"}}' id="cite_ref-8" rel="dc:references" typeof="mw:Extension/ref"><a href="./August_28#cite_note-8" id="mwAWM" style="counter-reset: mw-Ref 8;"><span class="mw-reflink-text" id="mwAWQ">[8]</span></a></sup><sup about="#mwt55" class="mw-ref reference" data-mw='{"name":"ref","attrs":{},"body":{"id":"mw-reference-text-cite_note-9"}}' id="cite_ref-9" rel="dc:references" typeof="mw:Extension/ref"><a href="./August_28#cite_note-9" id="mwAWU" style="counter-reset: mw-Ref 9;"><span class="mw-reflink-text" id="mwAWY">[9]</span></a></sup>
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