Bangladesh Islamists concede election loss‘BEST ELECTION’ : The election commission said that voting was canceled at only one of 42,000 polling stations, while Jamaat-e-Islami dropped integrity concernsAFP, DHAKABangladesh’s largest Islamist party conceded defeat in elections yesterday, despite earlier alleging problems with the vote count, clearing the way for nationalist leader Tarique Rahman to become prime minister. Bangladeshi Election Commission figures showed Rahman’s Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) had won a landslide victory in the elections on Thursday, the first since a deadly 2024 uprising ousted the iron-fisted rule of then-Bangladeshi prime minister Sheikh Hasina. “It was by far the best election,” he said, noting that voting was canceled at only one of the more than 42,000 polling centers. “People had doubts about whether a successful election could be held under these circumstances, but we have done it,” he said. “If anyone still has any issues, they can go to court.”The Election Commission said turnout was 59 percent across 299 constituencies out of 300 in which voting took place.

Source: Taipei Times February 14, 2026 17:22 UTC