General Election

General Election
Japanese ambassador Ito Naoki at DCAB talk

Japanese ambassador at DCAB talk Japan hopes for an election better than last time

Japanese ambassador Ito Naoki, at a DCAB talk on Tuesday, expressed hope that the forthcoming election in Bangladesh would be better than last time

Ruling Awami League General Secretary Obaidul Quader addresses a discussion marking the founding anniversary of Matsyajibi League at Awami League’s Bangabandhu Avenue Central Office, Dhaka, on 22 May 2022

BNP will have to join polls under existing system: Quader

BNP is making ill-efforts to fish in troubled water for making the election process questionable, said Obaidul Quader

AL General Secretary Obaidul Quader addresses a meeting with its associate bodies’ presidents and general secretaries and presidents and general secretaries of the party’s Dhaka North and South units at its central office at Bangabandhu Avenue, Dhaka, on 10 May 2022

BNP’s non-party polls-time government a ‘political bargain’: Quader

We will ask the BNP to join the polls without bargaining here and there, said the AL general secretary Obaidul Quader

BNP secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir speaks to media.

BNP sees EVM as Awami League’s new ‘trap’

BNP sees the plans to use EVM in the next general election as an Awami League strategy

Ruling Awami League General Secretary and the Road Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader talks to newspersons in Feni on 5 May 2022

Parliament election to be held on time: Obaidul Quader

The national election in Bangladesh will be held on time following the Constitution, said ruling Awami League General Secretary Obaidul Quader

Awami League logo

Awami League: Discussions focus on next possible general secretary

The national council may be held in December. Over a dozen names are being heard for the post of next general secretary

Akbar Ali Khan

District judges can be appointed as returning officers: Akbar Ali Khan

Akbar Ali Khan, an advisor to the former caretaker government and former cabinet secretary, said that the district judges could be appointed as the returning officers instead of deputy commissioners ...

In search of lost elections

In search of lost elections

Earlier, the 'Magura election model' was in a particular electoral area but now that model has spread throughout the country

Leaders and activists of BNP bring out a procession in marking the Independence Day.

BNP set to float new idea of ‘national government’

Amid the debate of the opposition parties over an interim government and a national government during the election, Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) is going to unveil a new idea of the ‘national ...

Election Commission Building

Dialogue essential, but not without any agenda

Relations between the election commission and the political parties need to be extremely open because it is these political parties, singularly or as an alliance, that nominate candidates for the ...

South Korea's new president-elect Yoon Suk Yeol (C), of the main opposition People Power Party, gestures to his supporters as he is congratulated outside the party headquarters in Seoul, South Korea, on 10 March, 2022

Conservative Yoon wins tight South Korean presidential race

Conservative Yoon Suk-yeol won South Korea's presidential election Thursday, with the political novice and avowed anti-feminist immediately promising a more hawkish policy on the nuclear-armed North

Yoon Suk-yeol of the main opposition People Power Party gestures to supporters during an election campaign rally in Seoul on 8 March, 2022, ahead of the 9 March presidential election

South Korea chooses new president with inequality key concern

South Koreans were at the polls electing a new president Wednesday with economic inequality a top concern especially among young swing voters

CEC Kazi Habibul Awal talks to media as other commissioners listens

New CEC not to act as ‘mediator’ among political parties

New CEC Kazi Habibul Awal said they have not yet taken any decision on what would be the work procedure of the new election commission

Justice Obaidul Hassa, head of the search committee to form election commission, address the media after a meeting on Supreme Court Judges’ Lounge on 20 February 2022.

EC formation: Names of 10 should be disclosed for transparency, experts say

Eminent citizens have said proposed names of 10 people for the appointment of the chief election commissioner and four commissioners should be disclosed for the sake of transparency

Mahbub Talukdar

Development never alternative to democracy: Mahbub Talukdar

Election commissioner Mahbub Talukdar on Monday said development is never an alternative system to democracy

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