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 former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, who fled the country yesterday amid pressure from student protests and the chaos that has engulfed the country in recent weeks, with more than 400 people dead since the start of mobilizations.
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 formation of an interim government to replace the president, who has been in power since 2009 amid allegations of government suppression of the opposition and election fraud. However, the military officer did not name any of the candidates to lead the new government.
In turn, the main leaders of the student protests, which began a month ago by demanding the annulment of a quota system for public employment, have put forward a candidate: the Nobel Prize winner Muhammad YunusAt 83, the 2006 Nobel Peace Prize winner is known as the banker to the poor, having founded the Grameen Bank to combat poverty in Bangladesh by developing the concept of microcredit, which provides loans to low-income people who would normally be turned away from the financial system.
The leaders of the student movement announced that they were preparing to form an interim government to take over and warned that they would not accept any other government. They have thus rejected the possibility of forming a government supported by the army or 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 name change will not solve the problem. The framework for the abolition of the fascist system is a new political agreement for the new Bangladesh,” they argued.
The situation in the country remains volatile as the new government awaits control, although the military lifted the curfew early on Tuesday and some schools announced their reopening.
Source: EITB
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