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Hind Al Soulia - Riyadh - DHAKA — Bangladesh’s Parliament on Thursday electedMirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir, a stalwart of the ruling Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) to the presidency, making the longtime opposition figure the head of state after his party came to power in a major political transition.
Alamgir, 78, defeated Oli Ahmed, a retired army colonel and chairman of the Liberal Democratic Party and candidate of the Jamaat-e-Islami-led 11-party opposition alliance, in a parliamentary vote.
Chief Election Commissioner A.M.M. Nasir Uddin declared Alamgir the winner after the 255-to-88 vote.
The largely ceremonial post fell vacant last month following the resignation of the former president, who was a close ally of ousted Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina.
A total of 349 members of Parliament were eligible to vote in what was the first contested presidential election since Oct. 1991, when the nation became a parliamentary democracy. Every presidential election since then had been uncontested, drawing no challengers to the ruling party’s candidate.
Alamgir was a long-time secretary-general of BNP and steered the political movement against the 15-year rule of Hasina. She fled the country in August 2024 during a mass uprising over allegations of autocratic rule and corruption in the allocation of government jobs, and her party has been barred from politics since last year.
During Hasina’s rule, he became one of the opposition’s most prominent voices and faced repeated arrests and a series of legal cases.
Bangladesh’s president is the head of state and commander-in-chief of the influential armed forces. Though the presidency is largely ceremonial, it has important roles to play during political crises. Executive authority remains with the prime minister and cabinet in the South Asian nation of about 173 million people.
The BNP and its allies hold a two-thirds majority in parliament after winning the February 12 general election, which returned the party to power after years in opposition and brought Tarique Rahman to the office of prime minister.
The resignation last month of Mohammed Shahabuddin on health grounds halfway through his five-year term triggered the presidential election.
A former Awami League politician and close confidant of Hasina, Shahabuddin was elected president in 2023 when her party was at the height of its power.
Alamgir began his career as a teacher after studying economics at the University of Dhaka. He joined the BNP in the early 1990s and rose steadily through the party ranks to become one of its best-known national leaders.
Over the course of his political career, he held several ministerial posts, most recently serving as local government minister before stepping down following his nomination for the presidency.
He is expected to be sworn in on Friday evening.
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