Amman Today

publish date 2026-02-13 05:49:00

The National Party of Bangladesh, led by Tariq Rahman, confirmed a landslide victory in the legislative elections, the first the country has witnessed since the 2024 uprising that toppled Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina.

On Friday afternoon, the Electoral Commission confirmed that the party had won two-thirds of the seats, according to projections from national television channels. According to the figures provided to the press by the committee’s first secretary, Akhtar Ahmed, the Bangladesh Nationalist Party won 212 seats out of 300, while the Jamaat-e-Islami-led coalition won 77 seats.

The largest Islamic party in Bangladesh questioned the election results, saying that it had “serious questions about the integrity of the election results,” while the Islamic group announced in a statement, “We are not satisfied with the process surrounding the election results,” denouncing the presence of “repeated contradictions or manipulations in announcing the initial results.”

The United States, through its embassy in Dhaka, congratulated the Bangladesh Nationalist Party and Tariq Rahman on the “historic victory,” expressing its aspiration to work with it “to achieve its goals of prosperity and security.”

Early optimism and a tight security atmosphere

Before the polls closed, Tariq Rahman, 60 years old and the most prominent candidate for prime minister, expressed his confidence in the ability of his party, which was subjected to suppression during 15 years of Sheikh Hasina’s rule, to regain power in the South Asian country, which has a population of 170 million people.

The electoral process was accompanied by strict security measures, as more than 300,000 soldiers and police were deployed across the country, after warnings from United Nations experts about the escalation of “intolerance,” “threats,” and “misinformation,” especially among millions of young people who are voting for the first time.

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Clashes and challenges of the next stage

Police reports indicated that 5 people were killed and more than 600 injured in clashes related to the election campaigns. Election Commissioner AMM Nasiruddin said that the most prominent challenges were the torrent of misleading information on social media.

Muhammad Yunus, the head of the interim government and Nobel Peace Prize laureate, stressed that these elections “will determine the future direction of the country and the nature of its democracy,” stressing that he will relinquish his position as soon as a new government takes power.

Yunus has assumed leadership of the country since the overthrow of Sheikh Hasina in August 2024, while the Awami League party led by Hasina was banned from contesting the elections. Hasina, 78, who took refuge in neighboring India, was sentenced to death in absentia for crimes against humanity due to the bloody crackdown on protesters during the final months of her rule.

The next government awaits major economic challenges in the world’s second-largest clothing exporter, in addition to sensitive relations with India. Before the elections, Tariq Rahman had told Agence France-Presse that his priority would be to establish security and stability, warning that the challenges ahead were enormous and that “the economy had been destroyed.”

France 24/AFP

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Source 1 : https://www.france24.com/ar/آسيا/20260213-الحزب-الوطني-البنغلادشي-يؤكد-تحقيق-فوز-واسع-في-الانتخابات-التشريعية-بعد-انتفاضة-2024

Source 2 : ألدستور