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[30] 200,000 electoral observers, including 2,500 from outside Bangladesh, monitored the elections and confirmed their free and fair nature. Before the elections, the army-backed caretaker government took measures to eliminate corruption from the process.
3 November – The caretaker government schedules general elections on 18 December 2008. [17] 24 November – The Electoral Commission reschedules the date for the general election from 18 to 29 December. [18] 29 December – 2008 Bangladeshi general election takes place, Bangladesh Awami League secures a landslide victory. Sheikh Hasina ...
The second general elections were held in Bangladesh on 18 February 1979, under President Ziaur Rahman.The Bangladesh Nationalist Party won the election; They won 207 out of 300 seats in the Jatiya Sangsad.The total vote was 51.2%ред In this election, Awami League (Malek) won 39 seats, Awami League (Mizan) 2, JSD 8, Muslim League and Democratic League 20, NAP (Muzaffar) 1, Bangladesh National ...
Hasina with US President Bill Clinton at the Prime Minister's Office in Dhaka, 2000 Hasina with European Commission President Romano Prodi in Brussels, 2001. The Awami League (AL), with other opposition parties, demanded that the next general elections be held under a neutral caretaker government, and that provision for caretaker governments to manage elections be incorporated in the constitution.
November 24: Bangladesh's Electoral Commission reschedules the date for the general election from December 18 to December 29.(November 3: The Bangladeshi government schedules general elections on December 18, 2008, which will end the rule of the one and half year military-backed interim government.
Scene from a polling booth in Bangladesh. Bangladesh elects on national level a legislature with one house or chamber. The unicameral Jatiyo Sangshad, meaning national parliament, has 350 members of which 300 members are directly elected through a national election for a five-year term in single-seat constituencies while 50 memberships are reserved for the women who are selected by the ruling ...
Sheikh Hasina stood for five seats in the October 2001 general election: Rangpur-6, Narail-1, Narail-2, Barguna-3, and Gopalganj-3. After winning all but Rangpur-6, she chose to represent Gopalganj-3 and quit the other three, triggering by-elections in them.
The 2006–2008 Bangladeshi political crisis began as a caretaker government (CTG) assumed power at the end of October 2006 following the end of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party administration. The BNP government increased the chief justice's retirement age in an unconstitutional way to bias the appointment of the head of the caretaker government.