Bangladesh’s fugitive ex-leader warns of mass voter boycott in 2026 polls
Sheikh Hasina warns that banning the Awami League party disenfranchises millions and deepens Bangladesh’s political crisis ahead of February 2026 elections, which she calls unfair.
- Bangladesh's former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina warned that holding elections without her party, the Awami League, risks deepening division in the country.
- Hasina condemned her trial for crimes against humanity as a 'jurisprudential joke' and believes a guilty verdict was 'preordained'.
- Hasina said the interim government's ban on the Awami League under anti-terrorism laws prevents credible elections by excluding a major party.
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Ousted Bangladesh Prime Minister Warns of Mass Voter Boycott After Her Party Barred from Election
Ousted Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina told Reuters on Wednesday that millions of voters in her party, the Awami League, will boycott next year's election after the party was barred from contesting the polls. The post Ousted Bangladesh Prime Minister Warns of Mass Voter Boycott After Her Party Barred from Election appeared first on Breitbart.
Bangladesh's Sheikh Hasina warns of mass voter boycott as Awami League party barred from election
“The ban on the Awami League is not only unjust, it is self-defeating,” Ms. Hasina said in emailed responses to Reuters — her first media engagement since her dramatic fall from power after 15 straight years at the helm of Bangladeshi politics
Bangladesh’s Sheikh Hasina warns of mass voter boycott as her party barred from election
Millions of supporters of Bangladesh’s Awami League will boycott next year’s national election, after the party was barred from contesting the polls, ousted Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina told Reuters on Wednesday from her exile in New Delhi. Hasina, 78, said she would not return to Bangladesh under any government formed after elections that exclude her party, and plans to remain in India, where she fled in August 2024 following a deadly student-l…
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