{"id":17945,"date":"2024-01-08T05:18:12","date_gmt":"2024-01-08T05:18:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/2024\/01\/08\/bangladesh-pm-sheikh-hasina-wins-5th-term-n-f-times\/"},"modified":"2024-01-08T05:18:12","modified_gmt":"2024-01-08T05:18:12","slug":"bangladesh-pm-sheikh-hasina-wins-5th-term-n-f-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/2024\/01\/08\/bangladesh-pm-sheikh-hasina-wins-5th-term-n-f-times\/","title":{"rendered":"Bangladesh PM Sheikh Hasina Wins 5th Term &#8211; N.F Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p><span style=\"text-transform: initial;\">Dhaka: Bangladesh\u2019s Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has won re-election for a fifth term Sunday, officials said, following a boycott led by an opposition party she branded a \u201cterrorist organisation\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Hasina\u2019s ruling Awami League \u201chas won more than 50 percent seats,\u201d an Election Commission spokesman told AFP, with counting ongoing.<\/p>\n<p>She has presided over breakneck economic growth in a country once beset by grinding poverty, but her government has been accused of rampant human rights abuses and a ruthless opposition crackdown.<\/p>\n<p>Her party faced almost no effective rivals in the seats it contested, but it avoided fielding candidates in a few constituencies, an apparent effort to avoid the legislature being branded a one-party institution.<\/p>\n<p>The opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP), whose ranks have been decimated by mass arrests, called a general strike and, along with dozens of others, refused to participate in a \u201csham election\u201d.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>[ad_2]<br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] Dhaka: Bangladesh\u2019s Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has won re-election for a fifth term Sunday, officials said, following a boycott led by an opposition party she branded a \u201cterrorist organisation\u201d. Hasina\u2019s ruling Awami League \u201chas won more than 50 percent seats,\u201d an Election Commission spokesman told AFP, with counting ongoing. She has presided over breakneck [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17945","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-world"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17945","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17945"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17945\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17947,"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17945\/revisions\/17947"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17945"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17945"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17945"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}