Bangladesh Nationalist Party sweeps to victory in first election since Gen Z uprising
The centre-right Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) has secured a landslide majority in parliament, 18 months after mass protests ousted the country’s longest serving prime minister Sheikh Hasina. The party took more than two-thirds of seats in the historic general election, with Jamaat, the country’s main Islamist party, coming second. Hasina’s Awami League was banned from […]