Bangladesh election: Can the country move on from Sheikh Hasina?

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Bangladesh election: Can the country move on from Sheikh Hasina?

Tomorrow voters in Bangladesh will go to the polls in what many in the country see as the first free and fair elections for more than a decade.

It follows the the youth-led uprising which toppled Sheikh Hasina from power. Fourteen hundred people lost their lives in the unrest.

But youthful idealism doesn’t always translate into political power and the frontrunners are established forces, so what hope for real change?

Date: February 11, 2026