- The interim prime minister suggests that the elections can be delayed until June 2026.
- BNP does not have 'plans' to dispute the elections as part of any coalition.
- BNP's internal surveys show majority victory in the elections, says Khan.
Nueva Delhi: Bangladesh's main opposition party warned about instability and “strong resentment within people” if the elections are not held in December, after the country's de facto prime minister said that the survey could be delayed up to 2026.
An interim not chosen government led by the Nobel Prize of the La Paz Award, Muhammad Yunus, has been directing the southern country of 173 million since August, after mortal protests led by students forced Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, an ally of India for a long time, to flee to New Delhi.
The two largest matches in the country, the Hasina Awami League and the Rival Nationalist Party of Bangladesh, had wanted elections to be held last year, but Yunus said in a speech on Tuesday that a vote could be held between December 2025 and June 2026.
That would give time for reforms to make “the most free, fair and credible elections in Bangladesh,” said Yunus. The opposition and some western countries alleged a generalized rig in the previous Hasina elections, which she denied.
Earlier this month, a former Yunus ministerial colleague, Nahid Islam student leader, said this year's elections would be difficult since surveillance and order and order have not yet been completely restored.
But the BNP opposition wants a return to democracy this year, said Abdul Moyeen Khan, a member of the highest decision -making body of the party and former Minister of Science and Information Technology.
“We will try to convince them that the best way for them is to call an choice as soon as possible and go to an honorable exit,” Khan told Reuters In an interview on Saturday, referring to the interim government.
“December is a generally agreed schedule. Beyond December it would do the most complicated things,” Khan said, speaking from Washington DC, where he is looking for meetings with US officials to talk about Bangladesh.
“There will be a strong resentment within the people of Bangladesh. That means that perhaps some instability … time will decide.”
Khan is the first figure of BNP senior to warn about the consequences if the elections are not held this year.
There is no prior coalition to the survey for BNP
The Hasina Awami League has been largely disintegrated with the prime minister and other high -level leaders of the country or in the race.
It is likely that the main BNP rivals in the next elections are the team of newly released students of Islam, the Jatiya Nagorik party or the National Citizens Party. Student leaders have said that Bangladesi are tired of the two established parties and want changes.
But Khan said that BNP's internal surveys show that the party would win an easy majority in any election held within next year and that the head of the interim game Tarique Rahman would return to Dhaka for his self -imposed exile in London when elections are announced.
Several judicial orders against him and his mother, former Prime Minister Khaleda Zia, have been revoked in recent months, which could return.
The president of BNP, Zia, who suffers from liver cirrhosis and heart problems and has been recovering in London since January, is “much better now than since he was in Bangladesh”, but it is unlikely that he will return to active politics, Khan said after a recent meeting with her.
Khan said that BNP still had no plans to dispute the elections as part of any coalition, but once chosen would be open to work with other matches, including the Jatiya Nagorik party of the students.
“After the elections, we would be happy to form a government with everyone in favor of democracy,” he said.
