Muhammad Yunus, the Interim President of Bangladesh administration informed that General elections are scheduled for late next year or early 2026, which was put in place following the August unrest.
Nobel Peace Prize winner Yunus, who was named the nation’s “chief adviser” following the student-led rebellion that overthrew former Premier Sheikh Hasina in August, has been under increasing pressure to announce a date.
The 84-year-old pioneer of microfinance is in charge of a transitional government that will attempt to address the “extremely tough” task of reestablishing democratic institutions in the roughly 170 million-person South Asian country. “Election dates could be fixed by the end of 2025 or the first half of 2026,” he said in a broadcast on state television.
The Chaos started in Bangladesh as thousands of demonstrators overran the prime minister’s palace in Dhaka, Hasina, 77, took a helicopter to neighboring India. The majority of the hundreds of deaths in the weeks before Hasina’s overthrow were caused by police shooting.
In the hours following her overthrow, numerous others perished, mostly as a result of retaliatory murders committed against well-known members of her Awami League party. In an effort to undermine democratic constraints on her authority, her government was also charged with rigging elections and politicizing the courts and public service.
