1 of 1 Sheikh Hasina, Prime Minister of Bangladesh, speaks at the Climate Summit 2021 Photo: Reproduction/Youtube Sheikh Hasina, Prime Minister of Bangladesh, speaks at the Climate Summit 2021 Photo: Reproduction/Youtube
According to the National Election Commission, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, in power since 2009, has won the general elections held in Bangladesh this Sunday (7), confirming information from local media.
Hasina is the leader of the Awami League party and is entering her fifth term in office after the dispute was boycotted by the main opposition party, the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP).
Somoy TV, the country's largest private television channel, had reported that the Awami League and its allies occupied 60% of the seats in Parliament after results were announced for 225 of the 330 seats.
Sheikh Hasina, 76, urged voters to go to the polls to show their trust in the democratic process.
Arguing that the elections would be neither free nor honest, there was a boycott by the BPN, which denounced “a false election”, and by other parties, which have been decimated by a massive wave of arrests in recent months.
This Sunday morning, after the vote in the capital Dhaka, Hasina told reporters that the BNP was a “terrorist organization”.
The statement came after Hasina's opponents called a general strike over the weekend and urged the population not to vote.
Opponents feared a repeat of the irregularities of the previous elections, in which Prime Minister Hasina won.
(With information from AFP)