Monday, 31 December 2018

Bangladesh PM Hasina wins thumping victory in elections opposition reject as 'farcical'

At least 17 people were killed on election day, with claims ruling Awami League rigged country’s first contested election in a decade

Bangladesh’s opposition has rejected the “farcical” results of national elections officially declared to have been won by the prime minister, Sheikh Hasina, in a landslide.

The Bangladesh election commission said early on Monday that Hasina’s Awami League had won a record third consecutive term, taking along with its allies 288 of the country’s 298 parliamentary seats on offer.

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from World news | The Guardian http://bit.ly/2EZwBTA

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