Bangladesh’s prime minister, Sheikh Hasina, wins a fifth term
The country is now in effect a one-party state
IT WAS the kind of result a truly democratic politician can only dream of. Not long after polls in Bangladesh’s parliamentary election closed on January 7th, a returning officer in Sheikh Hasina’s Dhaka constituency announced that the prime minister had been re-elected with 249,965 votes. The runner-up received 469.
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This article appeared in the Asia section of the print edition under the headline “Sheikh, rattle, roll”
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