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Bangladesh president, feeling 'humiliated', wants to step down halfway through term
President Shahabuddin feels humiliated by interim government actions and will remain until February elections despite planning to resign mid-term, officials said.
- On Dec 11, Bangladeshi President Mohammed Shahabuddin announced plans to resign midterm after February's parliamentary election and said he felt `humiliated` by the interim government led by Muhammad Yunus.
- A student-led uprising in August 2024 forced Sheikh Hasina to flee to New Delhi, leaving Shahabuddin the last constitutional authority in a country of 173 million people.
- Portraits were removed overnight in September from Bangladeshi embassies, consulates and high commissions, Yunus had not met him for nearly seven months, and the press department of the presidency was taken away.
- He said he will remain in office until the next government elects its own president and is in contact with Army Chief General Waker-uz-Zaman, who has no power grab plans.
- With BNP and Jamaat-e-Islami poised as frontrunners, Bangladesh's military history complicates stability as Army Chief General Waker-uz-Zaman urges democracy and Shahabuddin warns the portrait removals send 'a wrong message' to the people.
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Bangladesh president, feeling 'humiliated', wants to step down halfway through term
Bangladeshi President Mohammed Shahabuddin said on Thursday he plans to step down midway through his term after February’s parliamentary election, telling Reuters he has felt humiliated by the interim government, led by Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus.
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Humiliated, sidelined: Bangladesh President wants to quit mid-term
Bangladesh President Mohammed Shahabuddin expresses desire to leave office after feeling humiliated by the Yunus-led interim administration. He was elected unopposed in 2023 for a five-year term as the nominee of Hasina's Awami League, which has since been barred from contesting the 12 February election.
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- 46% of the sources are Center, 46% of the sources lean Right
46% Right
C 46%
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