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2009 Bangladeshi presidential election. Indirect presidential elections were due to be held in Bangladesh on 16 February 2009 following the 2008 parliamentary election. [1][2] They were originally scheduled to have taken place by 5 September 2007, when Iajuddin Ahmed 's term expired, but was postponed due to the lack of an elected parliament. [3]
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 ...
2009 elections in Bangladesh (1 P) 2009 elections in Belgium (3 P) 2009 elections in Brazil (1 P) 2009 elections in British Overseas Territories (1 C, 4 P)
General elections were held in Bangladesh on 29 December 2008. The two main parties in the election were the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP), led by Khaleda Zia, and the Bangladesh Awami League Party, led by Sheikh Hasina. The Bangladesh Awami League Party formed a fourteen-party Grand Alliance including Ershad 's Jatiya Party, [1] while the ...
History. The ties between Britain and Bangladesh date back to the British Raj, when the region of Bengal was annexed in 1757. During the Bangladesh Liberation War Britain offered shelter to diplomats and people who escaped the conflict. The British government, politicians and media were also critical of the atrocities committed in Bangladesh ...
Reassuring global firms that Bangladesh remains open for business is a top priority of the interim government. Still, the glacial pace of reform means doubts fester. Muhammad Yunus on the Race to ...
2009 in Bangladesh. 2009 (MMIX) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar, the 2009th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 9th year of the 3rd millennium and the 21st century, and the 10th and last year of the 2000s decade. The year 2009 was the 38th year after the independence of Bangladesh.
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 ...