DHAKA

Bangladesh’s Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina received re-election for a fifth time period Sunday, officers stated, following a boycott led by an opposition celebration she branded a “terrorist organisation”.

Hasina’s ruling Awami League “has won the election”, an Election Commission spokesman advised AFP within the early hours of Monday morning, after a vote that preliminary reviews prompt had a meagre turnout of some 40 %.

She has presided over breakneck financial progress in a rustic as soon as beset by grinding poverty, however her authorities has been accused of rampant human rights abuses and a ruthless opposition crackdown.

Her celebration confronted virtually no efficient rivals within the seats it contested, nevertheless it prevented fielding candidates in a number of constituencies, in an obvious effort to keep away from the legislature being branded a one-party establishment.

The opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP), whose ranks have been decimated by mass arrests, known as a normal strike and, together with dozens of others, refused to take part in a “sham election”.

While the ultimate outcome and actual figures can be formally introduced at a ceremony in a while Monday, election fee officers stated Hasina’s celebration had received round three-quarters of seats, at the very least 220 of the whole 300.

But assist of different lawmakers together with from allied events may push Hasina’s management over parliament even greater.