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The Bangladesh government calls for unity to prevent the return of authoritarianism.

Dhaka: Bangladesh's preliminary government, which was taken over on Saturday after a mass uprising last year that Unity was necessary to “prevent the return of authoritarianism”.

The South Asian nation of around 170 million people has been in political turbulence since former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina was replaced by student protests in August 2024 and ended with iron fist of 15 years.

After a week of escalation in which competing parties protested on the streets of the capital Dhaka, the government mentioned by Muhammad Yunus said that political power struggles to give the risk of winners that achieve people to give their full support.

“A broader unit is important to maintain national stability, to organize free and fair elections, justice and reform and to permanently prevent the return of authoritarianism in the country,” says a statement.

Yunus, the 84-year-old winner of the Nobel Peace Prize, who returned from exile from exile last year, says that he has the obligation to implement the implementation of the democratic reforms before the elections that are due by June 2026 at the latest.

However, the government warned that they are faced with “inappropriate demands, deliberately provocative and responsible statements” that “continuously disabled” their work.

Sources in his office and an important political ally said on Thursday that the microfinance pioneer Yunus threatened to quit.

“If the autonomy, the government's reform efforts, the legal process, the fair election plan and the normal operations are so clogged not to fulfill their duties, this will take the necessary steps with people,” says Saturday without further details.

Wahiduddin Mahmud, who heads the Ministry of Finance and Planning, insisted that Yunus will not resign early.

“We will meet the responsibility assigned to us,” Mahmud told reporters on Saturday. “We can't just give up our duties.”

On Saturday evening, Yunus held talks with important political parties, including those who protested the government this month.

His spokesman Shafiqul Alam insisted that the parties all had “full trust” in Yunus, with an all-party meeting planned for Sunday.

Yunus met the leaders of the mighty Bangladeshical Nationalist Party (BNP), which was seen as election rangers and who are hard for surveys until December.

“Every apology to delay the choice can open the door to the return of the dictatorship,” said Senior BNP leader Khandaker Mosharraf Hossain after the meeting.

“The provisional government and its allies are blamed for such a consequence.”

Yunus said that surveys could be held in December, but that later – with the deadline of June – she would give the government more time for reforms.

But Hossain said that reforms, justice and elections are not “mutually exclusive goals”.

According to Bangladeschi media and military sources, the general prank of the army, Waker-Uz-Zaman, also said this week that the elections should be held by December that are based on the BNP claims.

Bangladesh has a long history of military coupons and the army retains a strong role.

The upcoming elections will be the first since Hasina fled to India, where they are against demonstrators in connection with the police in connection with the police of the past year, in which at least 1,400 people were killed in front of the self -imposed exile.

Shafiqur Rahman, the leader of Jamaat-E-Islami, the greatest religious party of the Muslim majority of the nation, said after his meeting with Yunus that he was asked for an election plan for a later date if he allowed reforms.

He also said he was looking for “progress in the ongoing exams” of Hasina's repressed regime.

Nahid Islam, Chairman of the National Citizen Party (NCP), consisting of many students who led the uprising who ended Hasina's rule, said he would like to later elections to secure time for “fundamental reforms”.

He fears that competing parties want quick elections to “accept power”.

After meeting Yunus, he said that the NCP had “called for a specific roadmap for reforms, legal proceedings and the election of a constituent meeting”.

Islam, an ally of Yunus, who previously worked in his cabinet on Saturday, warned that he had seen “signs” that a “government supported by the military could reappear-a one that is anti-democratic and anti-popel”.

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