{"id":27469,"date":"2018-12-30T21:22:47","date_gmt":"2018-12-30T21:22:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=27469"},"modified":"2018-12-30T21:22:47","modified_gmt":"2018-12-30T21:22:47","slug":"why-are-bangladeshs-elections-so-contentious","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=27469","title":{"rendered":"Why are Bangladesh&#8217;s elections so contentious?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"article-body\" readability=\"86\">\n<p><span>Bangladeshi Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina is the<\/span>\u00a0&#8220;daughter of democracy&#8221; to her supporters and an authoritarian to her critics.<\/p>\n<p><span>She has been in and out of power for decades in her country a<\/span>nd she is now likely to win a mandate for a record third straight term.<\/p>\n<p><span>Millions of Bangladeshis have cast their votes in what was seen as a referendum on Hasina&#8217;s ruling Awami League.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The elections have been marred by violence, accusations of a crackdown on opposition voices and complaints of vote-rigging. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Hasina&#8217;s long-term rival is former Prime Minister Khaleda Zia, but she has been in prison since February on corruption charges and is barred from taking part in the race.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>So, will Bangladeshis vote for Hasina to stay in power?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><strong>Presenter:<\/strong> Richelle Carey<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Guests:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span>Sultan Mahmud Shariff, president of the Awami League in the UK. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Shahab Enam Khan, Professor of International Relations at Jahangirnagar University. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Charu Lata Hogg, Associate Fellow of the Asia Pacific Programme at Chatham House.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Source:<\/span>\u00a0<span>Al Jazeera<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bangladeshi Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina is the\u00a0&#8220;daughter of democracy&#8221; to her supporters and an authoritarian to her critics. She has been in and out of power for decades in her country and she is now likely to win a mandate for a record third straight term. Millions of Bangladeshis have cast their votes in what&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":27470,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27469","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-middle_east_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27469","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27469"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27469\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/27470"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}