Polls have closed and counting is underneath manner in Bangladesh’s normal election, marked by a low voter turnout and a boycott by the opposition and its allies.
Sunday’s “one-sided” vote, because the opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Celebration (BNP) put it, is about to maintain Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina in energy for the fourth straight and total fifth time period.
It was the twelfth normal election within the nation of 170 million individuals because it seceded from Pakistan and have become an unbiased state in 1971.
The opposition introduced its boycott of the vote final 12 months after Hasina refused to step down and make manner for a impartial caretaker authorities to conduct the election. There was the same boycott by the opposition in 2014.
The turnout was about 40 %, Chief Election Commissioner Kazi Habibul Awal mentioned, nearly half of the greater than 80 % within the 2018 election. Preliminary outcomes are anticipated early on Monday.
“The important thing query on this election just isn’t who will win – the result’s predetermined – however quite a take a look at of its credibility,” mentioned Al Jazeera’s Jonah Hull, reporting from the capital Dhaka.
