Polls have closed and counting is below approach in Bangladesh’s basic election, marked by a low voter turnout and a boycott by the opposition and its allies.
Sunday’s “one-sided” vote, because the opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) put it, is ready to maintain Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina in energy for the fourth straight and total fifth time period.
It was the twelfth basic election within the nation of 170 million folks because it seceded from Pakistan and have become an impartial state in 1971.
The opposition introduced its boycott of the vote final 12 months after Hasina refused to step down and make approach for a impartial caretaker authorities to conduct the election. There was the same boycott by the opposition in 2014.
The turnout was about 40 p.c, Chief Election Commissioner Kazi Habibul Awal mentioned, nearly half of the greater than 80 p.c within the 2018 election. Initial outcomes are anticipated early on Monday.
“The key question in this election is not who will win – the result is predetermined – but rather a test of its credibility,” mentioned Al Jazeera’s Jonah Hull, reporting from the capital Dhaka.
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