{"id":61024,"date":"2024-01-08T07:27:42","date_gmt":"2024-01-07T22:27:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/jan\/07\/bangladeshs-prime-minister-sheikh-hasina-wins-fifth-term"},"modified":"2024-01-08T21:36:37","modified_gmt":"2024-01-08T12:36:37","slug":"bangladeshs-prime-minister-sheikh-hasina-wins-fifth-term","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=61024","title":{"rendered":"Hasina wins fifth term as Bangladesh PM after opposition boycotts vote"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Turnout reportedly as low as 40% after opposition party called general strike over \u2018sham election\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Bangladesh\u2019s prime minister, Sheikh Hasina, has won office for a fifth term, in an election that was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/jan\/05\/bangladesh-election-results-opposition-boycott-tarique-rahman-fourth-term-sheikh-hasina\">overshadowed by a ruthless crackdown on the opposition <\/a>and low voter turnout.<\/p>\n<p>The election commission announced in the early hours of Monday that Hasina\u2019s ruling Awami League had won a fourth consecutive term, winning almost 75% of the seats. It will be her fifth term as prime minister as she had previously ruled between 1996 and 2001, before coming back to power in 2009.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/jan\/07\/bangladeshs-prime-minister-sheikh-hasina-wins-fifth-term\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Turnout reportedly as low as 40% after opposition party called general strike over \u2018sham election\u2019Bangladesh\u2019s prime minister, Sheikh Hasina, has won office for a fifth term, in an election that was overshadowed by a ruthless crackdown on the oppositio&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4093,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[327,2816,61,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-61024","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bangladesh","category-sheikh-hasina","category-south-and-central-asia","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61024","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4093"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=61024"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61024\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61041,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61024\/revisions\/61041"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=61024"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=61024"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=61024"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}