Bangladesh heads to the polls for the first time since Sheikh Hasina’s exile | ABC NEWS
A power vacuum in Bangladesh is set to be filled with the country’s first free and fair elections in over a decade to take place.
Tarique Rahman, the son of a former president of Bangladesh, is seeking to follow in his father’s footsteps, while the Islamist party Jamaat-e-Islami returns to the political scene for the first time in over a decade.
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