The student movement that has led the protests has announced that it is preparing to form an interim government to take power and has warned that it will not accept any other government.
Bangladesh is awaiting the formation of an interim government on Tuesday following the resignation of the current Prime Minister, Sheikh Hasina, who fled the country yesterday under pressure from student protests and the chaos that has engulfed the country in recent weeks, with more than 400 dead since the start of the protests.
Hasina’s resignation was announced yesterday by the head of the Army, Waker-Uz-Zaman, in an official statement in which he indicated the future creation of an interim government to replace the president, who had been in power since 2009 amid accusations of repressing the opposition and rigging elections. The military officer did not, however, outline the name of any of the candidates to lead the new Executive.
For their part, the main leaders of the student protests, which began a month ago to demand the annulment of a quota system for public employment, did propose a candidate on Tuesday: Nobel Prize winner Muhammad YunusAt 83, the 2006 Nobel Peace Prize winner is known as the banker of the poor for having founded the Grameen Bank to combat poverty in Bangladesh by developing the concept of microcredit, through which loans are granted to poor people who would normally be rejected by the financial system.
The leaders of the student movement announced that they are preparing to form an interim government to take power and warned that they will not accept another one. They have thus rejected the possibility of forming a government supported by the Army or by the president. “It will not be accepted by the revolutionary students. We want the fall of the dictatorship government, the abolition of the fascist system. A simple change of names does not solve the problem. The framework for the abolition of the fascist system is a new political agreement for the new Bangladesh,” they argued.
While awaiting the new government to take office, the situation in the country remains volatile, although the Army revoked the curfew early on Tuesday and some schools announced their reopening.
Source: Eitb
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