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Bangladesh’s main opposition warns of instability if elections delayed beyond December


Abdul Moyeen Khan, member of the Standing Committee of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party, was interviewed at his residence in Dhaka, Bangladesh on December 18, 2023.
Abdul Moyeen Khan, member of the Standing Committee of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party, was interviewed at his residence in Dhaka, Bangladesh on December 18, 2023.
  • The temporary afternoon recommended that the election may be postponed until June 2026.
  • The French did not have “no plan” to conduct elections as part of any alliance.
  • Khan said the KMT internal investigation showed that the majority won the election.

New Delhi: Bangladesh’s main opposition party warns that if no elections are held by December, the de facto prime minister in the country said the poll could be postponed until 2026.

The unelected provisional government led by Nobel Peace Prize winner Muhammad Yunus has operated South Asian countries since August (173 million) after deadly student-led protests forced longtime Indian ally Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina to flee to New Delhi.

The country’s two largest political parties, Hasina’s Awami Alliance and rival Bangladesh Nationalist Party, both hope to hold elections last year, but Yunus said in a speech on Tuesday that a vote could be held between December 2025 and June 2026.

Yunus said this would allow the time for reforms to be carried out “Bangladesh’s most free, just and credible elections.” The opposition and some Western countries claimed that in Hasina’s previous elections, she denied this.

Earlier this month, Yunus’ former ministerial colleague Nahid Islam said elections this year will be difficult because policing, law and order have not been fully restored.

Abdul Moyeen Khan, the party’s highest decision-making body and former minister of science and information technology, said the opposition KMT hopes to return to democracy this year.

Khan told them: “We will try to convince them that the best way is to hold the election as soon as possible and then go and exit with respect.” Reuters In an interview on Saturday, it was referring to the provisional government.

“December is a generally agreed timeline. Times outside of December will make things more complicated,” Khan said in a speech in Washington, D.C.

“There will be a strong resentment within the people of Bangladesh. This means that there may be some instability…time will decide.”

Khan was the first senior French KMT figure to warn of the consequences if no elections were held this year.

French Kuomintang has no preliminaries

Hasina’s Awami alliance is largely broken down with the Prime Minister and other senior leaders or other senior leaders in the campaign.

The KMT’s main rival in the next election may be the newly formed Islamic student costume, the Jatiya Nagorik Party or the National Civic Party. Student leaders say Bangladesh is tired of two mature political parties and hopes for a change.

But Khan said an internal NAB investigation showed that the party would win a majority in any election next year, and acting party head Tarique Rahman will return to Dhaka from London’s self-imposed exile when the election was announced.

Several court orders against him and his mother, former Prime Minister Khaleda Zia, have been overturned in recent months, potentially allowing him to return.

BNP Chairman Zia, who has cirrhosis and heart disease problems, has been recovering in London since January and “is much better now than she is in Bangladesh but is unlikely to return to active politics.

Khan said the French KMT has not yet planned to participate in the election as part of any coalition, but once elected, it will work with other parties, including the students’ Jatiya Nagorik party.

“After the election, we are happy to form a government with everyone who supports democracy,” he said.



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