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These hearings would have marked the first time that Wray and Mayorkas appeared before Congress since Republican Donald Trump won the U.S. presidential election on Nov. 5.
Thousands of supporters of Bangladesh's governing and opposition parties held separate rallies in the capital on Friday over who should oversee the next general election, expected to be held early ...
The former minister and his Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) are not running in the Jan. 7 vote, in which Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina is chasing a fourth straight term, despite a bleak economy ...
The United States Department of State, in a statement, said that the election was not free and fair [5] and the UK's Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office termed the election lacking the preconditions of democracy. [6] According to The Economist, through this election, "Bangladesh effectively became a one-party state". [7]
Alejandro Nicholas Mayorkas [18] was born in Havana, Cuba, on November 24, 1959. [4] When he was one year old, his parents fled with him and his sister to the United States in 1960 as refugees, following the Cuban Revolution.
[77] [78] Local media in Bangladesh reported that the Hasina government lined up their supporters near polling stations when cameras and foreign election observers were near and had them disperse immediately afterwards. [10] However, some election observers did report a peaceful environment at the polling stations on the day of the elections. [79]
The main opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party led by former Prime Minister Khaleda Zia and its allies boycotted the election, and voter turnout was a low 41.8%. While election day was ...
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 ...