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> Yew would have been thrown out of office in a week and some "coup" would have been organized if some big foreign power has special interests in the area and wanted him gone.

There was significant interest from foreign powers doing just that, look up Operation Coldstore and the history of communist insurgency in Singapore.

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Operation Coldstore was kind of the opposite to the above: Yew and foreign "allies" taking out pesky left-wingers and pro-worker representation.

but there was heavy foreign influence and support on the left-wingers and pro-worker representation, from the communist bloc

There was also heavy support for them from the local population and workers.

And of course the right wingers not only had "heavy foreign influence and support" on their side too (the whole country was established under heavy western influence and at its "benevolence"), but they also crushed them, undemocratically with the help of that foreign influence and support.

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