Tag Archives: Election

Dhaka, Dec 3 – BNP is likely to come up with simultaneous action programmes across the country from December 5 in its efforts to mount pressure on the government to release its chairperson Khaleda Zia and register its protest against the 11th parliamentary election on its first anniversary. Read More »

by Brendan Donnelly Director, The Federal Trust 27th November 2019 – Jeremy Corbyn has rarely in recent decades feared political controversy. On issues such as Ireland, the Middle East, NATO, income redistribution and renationalisation, he has advocated with candour and persistence views that have been unattractive, even shocking to many electors. Many of his supporters thereby hail him as a ... Read More »

by Lea Ypi on 13th November 2019 With the UK facing one of the most important elections in decades, the focus should be on the clear programmatic differences between the main parties, rather than weekly polling outcomes. If I were to give unsolicited advice to media pundits preparing to comment on the upcoming general election it would be the following: ... Read More »

US acting Assistant Secretary of State Alice G Wells has stressed the importance of “credible and contested” municipal elections in Bangladesh. Read More »

Dhaka, Nov 3 – Election Commission (EC) is taking preparation to hold the elections to the Dhaka North City Corporation (DNCC) and Dhaka South City Corporation (DSCC) in January next year. Read More »

Boris Johnson is to try again for a 12 December general election on Tuesday – despite MPs rejecting his plan. The prime minister will publish a bill that would only need a simple majority to succeed – not two thirds as required in previous attempts. Read More »

Boris Johnson will ask MPs to allow him to hold a snap general election on December 12. The prime minister said on Thursday he would give parliament more time to debate his Brexit deal, on the condition it voted in favour of an election before Christmas. Read More »

Voters of Bangladesh Cholochitro Shilpi Samiti are casting ballots to elect the new executive committee for 2019-20 period at Bangladesh Film Development Corporation (BFDC) on Friday. Read More »

With just over a year left until the 2020 U.S. presidential election, Facebook is stepping up its efforts to ensure it is not used as a tool to interfere in politics and democracies around the world. Read More »

If the FBI discovers that foreign hackers have infiltrated the networks of your county election office, you may not find out about it until after voting is over. And your governor and other state officials may be kept in the dark, too. Read More »

Dhaka, Oct 20 – Election Commissioner Mahbub Talukder on Sunday said the public representatives who are elected through illegal means do not have any legality of their elections. Read More »

About Workers Party President Rashed Khan Menon’s claim that people could not cast their votes in the last parliamentary elections, Awami League General Secretary Obaidul Quader on Sunday questioned whether he would have made the claim had he been a minister. Read More »

Cox’s Bazar, Oct 14 – Two people were killed in firing reportedly by members of Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) during the by-election to a ward of Ghumdhum union parishad in Naikkhongchhari upazila of Bandarban on Monday. Read More »

by Maria Skóra on 7th October 2019 @MariaSkora Whether the coming election in Poland will consolidate the monopoly of the national-conservative PiS or favour a more pluralist balance of power, it will have a significant impact on Polish political culture. Read More »

Dhaka, Sept 30 – The upcoming by-election to the Rangpur-3 constituency would be held using Electronic Voting Machines (EVMs), EC sources said. Read More »

Chittagong, Sept 16 – Police arrested three people including a staff of the local election office for allegedly helping Rohingyas to get BD National Identity Card (NID) in the city on Monday night. Read More »

Labour must prioritise reversing Brexit through another referendum, over winning power in a general election, its deputy leader Tom Watson is to say. He will warn that a snap election before the end of the year may fail to resolve the current deadlock. Putting himself at odds with Jeremy Corbyn, he will say there is “no such thing as a ... Read More »

Rangpur, Sept 9 – A total of nine candidates have filed nomination to contest the by-election to Rangpur-3 constituency billed for October 5. Read More »

Dhaka, July 09 – Terming the 100 percent vote cast in 213 centres in the 11th parliamentary polls as ‘illogical and unusual’, Shushashoner Jonno Nagorik (Shujan) Tuesday demanded the Judicial Supreme Council (JSC) to investigate the irregularities and to bring the responsible person to justice. The cast of 100 percent votes in any centre is not logical and not at ... Read More »

Dhaka, June 30 – The 100 percent voters’ turnout in 213 polling centers in the 11th parliamentary polls has raised questions among political parties, experts and even the Election Commission. Even Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) KM Nurul Huda on Sunday termed the casting of 100 percent votes in election centres ‘abnormal’. Election Commission (EC) on Saturday published the full results ... Read More »

বাংলাদেশ মুসলিম লীগের কেন্দ্রীয় নেতৃবৃন্দের একটি প্রতিনিধি দল গত ১৮ জুন সকাল ১১.০০টায় বগুড়া উপস্থিত হন এবং সারাদিন ব্যাপী সংসদ উপ-নির্বাচনে বগুড়া-৬ আসনের বিভিন্ন অঞ্চলে দলীয় প্রার্থী মাওলানা রফিকুল ইসলামের পক্ষে গণসংযোগ করেন। এলাকার সাতপাতা, ইসলামপুর, সেরুয়া বটতলা প্রভৃতি অঞ্চলে ভোটারদের সাথে গণসংযোগের পর সেরুয়া বটতলা এলাকায় জনাকীর্ণ এক উঠান বৈঠকে দলীয় মহাসচিব কাজী আবুল খায়ের বলেন, ভারতবর্ষের মুসলমানদের এক ... Read More »

By Roberto Savio Rome, Jun 3 2019 (IPS) – The terrible feeling I had on waking up and seeing the Italian voting results at the recent European elections was that my country was suddenly full of strangers. How could the majority of Italians reconfirm a government which has been the most inefficient in history, quarrelling on everything every single day ... Read More »

By Ranjit Devraj New Delhi, May 25 2019 (IPS) – “We worked for the poor and they voted us back to power,” was the explanation that Prime Minister Narendra Modi made to newly-elected legislators on Saturday, May 25, on the spectacular win scored by his nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in India’s just concluded general elections. Modi’s statement appeared refreshingly ... Read More »

Dhaka, May 25 (UNB) – BNP senior leader Khandaker Mosharraf Hossain on Saturday urged the government, the Election Commission and the ruling Awami League to take lessons from India’s Lok Sabha elections. “People in India could cast their ballots in favour of the party of their choice in the Lok Sabha elections. I would like to urge the Bangladesh government, ... Read More »

Kolkata, May 25(UNB) – Mamata Banerjee, addressing her first press conference after her party’s national election setback in Bengal, said she did not want to continue as Chief Minister and had told her Trinamool Congress that, acoording to NDTV. “I have told my party, for six months I have been unable to work. I was a powerless Chief Minister. I ... Read More »

Dhaka, May 20 (UNB) – BNP assistant international affairs secretary barrister Rumeen Farhana is going to be elected MP from a seat reserved for women in parliament. BNP got one reserved seat for women in proportionate to its five elected parliament members. Rumeen, also daughter of late Language Movement hero Oli Ahad, submitted her nomination form to the Election Commission ... Read More »

India, May 17 (AP/UNB) — India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi has taken his ruling party’s fight to the state of West Bengal, where it hopes to retain a majority in staggered general elections concluding this week. The battle pits Modi’s Bharatiya Janata Party’s divisive Hindu nationalism against the Trinamool Congress Party, headed by Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, the top elected ... Read More »

Dhaka, May 10 — Bangladesh Hindu-Buddhist-Christian Oikya Parishad (BHBCOP) on Friday expressed deep concern over the increased violence and oppression of minorities in the last four months after the national election. The BHBCOP, a non-profit aiming to protect rights of the religious and ethnic minorities, voiced its worries during its extended meeting at Moni Singh-Farhad Trust Bhaban in Dhaka’s Purana ... Read More »

By IPS World Desk Rome, Apr 29 2019 (IPS) – Journalists and media outlets worldwide have recently been subject to a subtle wave of vilification. Populist rhetoric and public indifference have begun to threaten the very foundation of our freedom. Journalists provide the checks and balances fundamental to all democracies, by highlighting government failures or reporting on societal injustice. But ... Read More »

By Rene Wadlow Street demonstrations began in Algiers on 22 February 2019 and quickly spread to other cities in Algeria. The demonstrations, often led by young people, are massive on Fridays, the chief day of rest. The first demands were that President Abdelaziz Boutefika not stand for a fifth term as president has already been president for 20 years since ... Read More »