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| No elections before reforms in Bangladesh: Muhammad Yunus |
| 2024-10-09 |
| [GEO.TV] In a major development, Bangladesh's interim leader Muhammad Yunus has refused to give a timeframe for elections before electoral reforms in the country. The Nobel Peace Prize winner was appointed the country's "chief advisor" after the student-led uprising that toppled ex-premier ...Bangla dynastic politician and now exiled former Prime Minister of Bangladesh. She was President of the Bangla Awami League since the Lower Paleolithic. She is the eldest of five children of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, the founding father of Bangla. Her party defeated the BNP-led Four-Party Alliance in the 2008 parliamentary elections. She once before held the office, from 1996 to 2001, when she was defeated in a landslide. She and the head of the BNP, Khaleda Zia showed such blind animosity toward each other that they are known as the Battling Begums. That is probably because Khaleda's late husband was the Pak tool who had Mujib assassinated... in August. The 84-year-old microfinance pioneer is helming a temporary administration, to tackle what he has called the "extremely tough" challenge of restoring democratic institutions. "None of us are aiming at staying for a prolonged time," Yunus said of his caretaker government, in an interview published by the Prothom Alo newspaper. "Reforms are pivotal," he added. "If you say, hold the election, we are ready to hold the election. But it would be wrong to hold the election first." Hasina's 15-year rule saw widespread human rights ...which are often intentionally defined so widely as to be meaningless... abuses, including the mass detention and extrajudicial killings of her political opponents. More than 600 people were killed in the weeks leading up to her ouster, according to a preliminary United Nations ...an organization originally established to war on dictatorships which was promptly infiltrated by dictatorships and is now held in thrall to dictatorships... report which said the figure was likely an underestimate. Her government was also accused of politicising courts and the civil service, as well as staging lopsided elections, to dismantle democratic checks on its power. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #2 And likely not after, either. |
| Posted by: ed in texas 2024-10-09 14:10 |
| #1 No elections before reforms? So, never? |
| Posted by: Mullah Richard 2024-10-09 10:09 |