(Adnkronos) – Bangladesh to vote on February 12. Voters will be called to the polls for parliamentary elections and to express themselves in the referendum on reforms, on the so-called ‘July Charter’. These will be the first consultations since the protests that forced then-premier Sheikh Hasina to flee to India. The interim administration led by Nobel Peace Prize winner Mohamed Yunus is in government. The election date was announced by the Electoral Commission, as reported by The Daily Star.
For Yunus, it is a “historic opportunity to build a new Bangladesh” after the student uprising of July 2024, also known as the July Revolution.
Spotlight on the Bangladesh Nationalist Party, led by former premier Khaleda Zia, and on Jamaat-e-Islami. The election campaign will run from January 22 to February 10. The last elections, in January of last year, were those that handed Hasina a fourth consecutive term. Then in the summer, protests erupted. And for over a year, the interim government led by Yunus has been in power. Last November, Hasina was sentenced to capital punishment for crimes against humanity in connection with the repression of last summer’s protests.
