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muriel_volestrangler

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2. I admit I haven't kept up with the situation there

Mon Nov 17, 2025, 06:34 AM

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After Sheikh Hasina was ousted as PM (the most powerful position), Muhammad Yunus, an economist who won the 2006 Nobel Peace Prize for his development of microcredit, was installed as a caretaker leader, with the title "Chief Adviser".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muhammad_Yunus

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mohammed_Shahabuddin, although from the same party as Hasina, remained as President, though that position is largely ceremonial.

Elections are set to be held in 2026: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2026_Bangladeshi_general_election

Yunus seems like an honest person, and had had relatively little involvement in politics before the crisis, so I hope an election will happen. But what the parties that are standing claim or intend to do, I have no idea - Hasina's party has been banned from the election.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Awami_League

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