Bangladesh’s Election Commission announced on Thursday that the country will hold its next national election on February 12, 2026, marking the first vote since a deadly, student-led uprising last year forced former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina to flee to India.
The Muslim-majority nation of 173 million people has since been governed by an interim administration headed by Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus.
#NEWSALERT | Bangladesh set to hold elections on February 12: Chief Election Commissioner pic.twitter.com/Y7mcIQ9UCu
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The upcoming vote will be a twin election, as a nationwide referendum on the “July Charter” , a proposal seeking to curb executive authority and strengthen judicial independence, will be held simultaneously. The caretaker government has been grappling with mounting domestic discontent, fueled by significant delays in promised political and economic reforms.
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This announcement sets the timetable for a major political transition, but the landscape remains tense as the former ruling party, Awami League, is currently banned and cannot contest the election, leaving the main competition between the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP), Jamaat-e-Islami, and the newly formed National Citizen Party (NCP).
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