Bangladesh's election: a democratic reset, or a vote that banned the opposition?
After Sheikh Hasina's ouster, an interim government banned her Awami League and held elections won in a landslide by the BNP. Backers call it a democratic reset; Hasina, in exile, calls the vote unfair.
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The BNP and interim leaders frame the vote as ending the autocratic 'two begums' era and restoring democracy after Hasina's deadly crackdown.
Hasina, exiled and sentenced to death in absentia, and her banned Awami League call the election illegitimate — a vote rigged by barring the country's largest party.
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