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President of Bangladesh (POB), [a] officially the President of the People's Republic of Bangladesh, [b] is the head of state of Bangladesh and commander-in-chief of the Bangladesh Armed Forces. The role of the president has changed three times since Bangladesh achieved its independence in 1971. Presidents had been given executive power.
Top right: Ziaur Rahman, the first president elected directly by the people of Bangladesh. He was the president from 21 April 1977 to 30 May 1981. Bottom left: Hussain Muhammad Ershad, the last president of Bangladesh directly elected by the people. He was the president from 11 December 1983 to 6 December 1990, a regime known as a dictatorship.
Presidential: JaGoDal/ BNP. 1978: 237/330 1979-1982 Shah Azizur Rahman: 1981-1982 Abdus Sattar: Sattar 1981: Second Military rule [12] 1982-1983 Ahsanuddin Chowdhury: Post abolished: Junta: Presidential: Independent military backed: None — 1983-1984 Hossain Mohammad Ershad: Military: Third Jatiyo Sangsad [13] 1984-1985 Hossain Mohammad Ershad ...
In 1978, General Ziaur Rahman ran for and an overwhelmingly won a five-year term as president. [63] [64] The next year elections were held for the National Assembly. Opponents questioned the integrity of the elections. [52] [65] Zia allowed Sheikh Hasina, the exiled daughter of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, to return to Bangladesh in 1981. [66]
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Since the independence of Bangladesh, the presidential election process has been changed several times due to both the presidential and parliamentary arrangements. [1] According to the Second Schedule to the Constitution of 1972, the president of the parliament used to be elected by a secret vote.
Bangladesh in 1974 was a socialist economy and the market was controlled by the state, through the people close to the government, mostly Awami League leaders, who owned the crucial permits of food grains trade. Besides, Bangladesh's Red Cross operations were led by a corrupt individual and a key leader of Awami League, Gazi Golam Mostafa. He ...
The president is the commander-in-chief of the Bangladesh Armed Forces. The president is elected by the legislature every five years and has normally limited powers that are substantially expanded during the tenure of a caretaker government , mainly in controlling the transition to a new government.