Non-partisan caretaker system restored in Dhaka
Bangladesh’s Supreme Court on Thursday restored a non-partisan caretaker government system for national elections but said it will not apply to the polls being held early next year.The caretaker system was introduced in 1996 and widely accepted by Bangladesh’s people and by international observers as a step toward election fairness in the a parliamentary democracy of 170 million people.
In two subsequent elections, two retired chief justices formed non-partisan governments that held the elections within 90 days and transferred power to the winners. The election in 2008 was held under a former central bank governor.
But political disputes led to the system being scrapped at the court’s suggestion in 2011 under then-Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, whose opponents said she aimed to manipulate future elections. Her administration oversaw national elections in 2014, 2018 and 2024 that kept Ms. Hasina in power and were not considered credible. The Bangladesh Nationalist Party headed by former Prime Minister Khaleda Zia, Ms. Hasina’s main rival, boycotted elections in 2014 and 2024, demanding the restoration of the caretaker government system, but Ms. Hasina rejected it.
On Thursday, the seven-member court ruled unanimously on two appeals and four petitions for review of its 2011 verdict.
The court said the system would be restored for the 14th national election since Bangladesh won independence from Pakistan in 1971.
But it will not apply to the 13th post-independence vote, which will be overseen by the interim government headed by Nobel Peace Prize laureate Muhammad Yunus.
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