Let us be perfectly candid: never in the history of Bangladesh has a political government presided over an election that it has lost…and this is not going to change by some magic this Christmas. Not only is this a function of the normal human greed for power when left unchecked, but also of a structure of government where every member of the election commission, every magistrate, every police commissioner, every High Court judge, and every election returning officer is ultimately appointed by the Prime Minister (sometimes through the silly artifice of ‘advice to the President’, with the President constitutionally bound to follow that advice), who just happens to be on the ballot. Nowhere in the actual democratic world is all source of every iota of authority literally vested in one person.
Dedicated to the restoration of pluralist, representative, democracy in Bangladesh. I write because they can't speak anymore.