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Bangladesh vote ‘a canary in a coalmine for developments in the Global South’, expert says

Millions of young Bangladeshis will vote for the first time on Thursday in a landmark election to determine the country’s leadership following a 2024 student-led uprising that ended former prime minister Sheikh Hasina’s autocratic rule. FRANCE 24’s Sharon Gaffney speaks with Dr Chietigj Bajpaee, Senior Research Fellow for South Asia in the Asia-Pacific Programme at Chatham House.

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