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Bangladesh interim government calls for unity to stop 'return of authoritarianism'
- Bangladesh's interim government led by Muhammad Yunus called for national unity on May 24 in Dhaka to prevent the return of authoritarianism amid ongoing political turmoil.
- The call follows a student-led uprising in August 2024 that ousted former prime minister Sheikh Hasina after 15 years of iron-fisted rule, creating a power vacuum and unrest.
- Muhammad Yunus, the elder statesman and Nobel laureate leading Bangladesh's caretaker government, engaged with major political groups such as the Bangladesh Nationalist Party and Jamaat-e-Islami to discuss the scheduling of upcoming elections and the possibility of implementing reforms.
- Yunus said elections could occur as early as December 2025, but later polls by June 2026 would allow more time for reforms, a position shared by allies like Nahid Islam and Jamaat leader Shafiqur Rahman.
- The unity urged aims to maintain stability, organise fair elections, ensure justice for last year’s crackdown killing over 1,400 protesters, and avoid re-emergence of a military-backed, anti-democratic government.
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The interim government of Bangladesh warned on Saturday that it was necessary to maintain unity in order to "avoid the return of authoritarianism", at a time when one of the main political parties the press was to hold elections before the end of the year.
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