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Leader of the Australian Labor Party Anthony Albanese gestures as he meets with Labor candidate for Reid, Sally Sitou and supporters after winning the general election at Marrickville Library and Pavilion in Sydney on 22 May, 2022.

Voters in Australia dump right over climate change

Centre-left leader Anthony Albanese claimed victory in Australia’s general election Saturday, as voters angered by climate inaction pulled the plug on a decade of conservative rule

Bangladesh and the EU delegates held their 10th Joint Commission meeting in Brussels on 20 May 2022

10th Joint Commission meeting EU raises concerns regarding rights situation, issues of civic space

The EU also raised concerns regarding the issue of freedom of expression offline and online, notably in the framework of the Digital Security Act

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

Electronic Voting Machine

National Election Apprehensions remain over EVM, EC yet to decide

Although the ruling Awami League in its recent executive meeting gave an indication that the next general election would be held using Electronic Voting Machine (EVM), the Election Commission (EC) ...

CEC Kazi Habibul Awal

EC will decide upon method of voting after review

The decision to conduct the voting with EVM or not will be taken by the election commission, Kazi Habibul Awal said

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

A section of women voters wait to cast their votes in the Gazipur City Corporation polls at Auchpara Government Primary School on 26 June.

Women voters on the wane in Bangladesh

For two years the house-to-house visits to update the voter list have not been carried out. That may be one of the reasons behind the decrease in number of women voters

Foreign Minister AK Abdul Momen addresses a seminar titled ‘Bangladesh and the United States Relations: Moving towards Enhanced Cooperation and Partnership’ organised by Bangladesh Institute of International and Strategic Studies (BIISS) at the BIISS auditorium on 24 April 2022

Foreign Minister highlights work towards ‘free, fair and transparent’ elections

Momen said the recently adopted law on the formation of the EC is a good manifestation of the government’s goodwill and determination to hold a free and fair election

Official campaign posters of French presidential election candidates Marine le Pen, leader of French far-right National Rally (Rassemblement National) party, and French President Emmanuel Macron, candidate for his re-election, displayed on a cemetery wall in Aubencheul-au-Bac, France, on 16 April 2022

Outcome of presidential vote not clear: French Prime Minister

Macron and Le Pen are seeking to attract voters who backed far-left leader Jean Luc Melenchon, after he came third in the first round on 10 April with about 22 per cent of the vote

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

AL now showing its old face: Mirza Fakhrul

AL now showing its old face: Mirza Fakhrul

BNP secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir on Friday said the ruing Awami League government is now showing its old face

Information and Broadcasting Minister Hasan Mahmud

'Foreign Minister did not discuss about BNP in talks with US counterpart'

BNP is afraid of joining polls and that’s why they have rejected the Union Parishad elections as well as parliamentary voting, Hasan Mahmud said

French centrist Emmanuel Macron and his far-right presidential rival Marine Le Pen.

France votes as tight Le Pen-Macron duel looms

France votes Sunday in the first round of presidential elections at which Emmanuel Macron is bidding for a second term in the face of a strengthening challenge from resurgent far-right leader Marine ...

Election commission

EC to begin data collection for voter list on 20 May

The Election Commission (EC) will begin door to door data collection as part of the voter list update program from 20 May

Debris is seen on site of the destroyed Mariupol children's hospital as Russia's invasion of Ukraine continues, in Mariupol, Ukraine, on 9 March 2022.

Russia-Ukraine war How justified is Bangladesh’s position on Ukraine issue?

Bangladesh’s position on Ukraine issue in the 11th session did not tally with the majority of countries and was clearly different from the principles it has followed until now

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