While PM Hasina claims this month’s election will be “written in golden letters in the history of Bangladesh,” the 41.8 percent voter turnout constitutes a majority rejection of her government.
Bangladesh will hold its next general election in the first week of January in 2024, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, the leader of Awami League, announced in Dhaka's Cox Bazar on Wednesday.
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina called on the people to vote for Awami League to continue the developmental momentum of the South Asian nation located right above the Bay of Bengal.
Bangladesh, the world's third largest Muslim-majority nation, is facing challenges from violent Islamist groups. The government is cracking down on radical groups and emphasizing the democratic principles of the country's founding, but radical Islamism still threatens to undermine stability in Bangladesh. Radicalization and terrorism are directly linked to government corruption and a lack of trust in the representative political process. To build trust in the political process, Bangladesh needs to strengthen its democratic institutions and develop a culture of transparency in the government that fosters accountability and restrains corruption.
The expansion of capitalism, through globalisation and imperialism, has caused social exclusion, poverty and environmental degradation in Bangladesh, writes Sabrina Syed.
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