What does Hasina win mean for Bangladesh?

An alliance under Bangladesh’s former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has won a more than two-thirds parliamentary majority in the country’s first polls in seven years, election officials said on Tuesday.

Bangladesh’s past experiences with democracy have been mixed at best, with losing parties refusing to accept results and resorting at times to violent street protests and strikes. Military figures, in and out of uniform, have sporadically stepped in, justifying their actions on the need for order.

Although main Opposition figure Begum Khaleda Zia said during the campaign the time for confrontational politics had passed, on election day she suggested she would win any fair vote, and her Bangladesh Nationalist Party complained about cheating once the polls closed.

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