In 1992, the late Lee Kuan Yew implied that the Philippines had too much democracy and not enough discipline, that our style of government was an impediment to progress. The then-senior minister of Singapore spoke at a business conference in Manila, where he said, “I believe that what a country needs to develop is discipline more than democracy. The exuberance of democracy leads to undisciplined and disorderly conditions which are inimical to development.”
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