He defeated former army officer Oli Ahmad, the candidate backed by the 11-party opposition alliance led by the far-right Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami and the country’s first major student-led political party, National Citizen Party (NCP), who received 88 votes.
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Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir elected as Bangladesh’s 23rd President
Veteran Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) leader Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir was today elected as the country’s 23rd President. The 78-year-old leader secured 255 votes in the Presidential election held at the Jatiya Sangsad, the country’s Parliament.
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A total of 343 members of Parliament cast their votes in the election, which was held under the supervision of Chief Election Commissioner ASM Nasir Uddin.
The election was necessitated after Mohammed Shahabuddin, who was elected unopposed in 2023 as a nominee of ousted Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s Awami League (AL) party, resigned last month on health grounds before completing his five-year term.
He quit halfway through his five-year term after serving through Ms Hasina’s ouster in August 2024, the Muhammad Yunus-led interim administration, and the BNP’s return to power in February.
The BNP, which returned to power in the February 12 elections, has a two-thirds majority in Parliament.
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