Since the fall of the Awami League government in August last year, several political parties in Bangladesh have been calling for electoral reform, most notably the introduction of a proportional ...

“I don’t think my vote will count this time. I don’t understand any of this PR system. I am not sure who I am even supposed to vote for.” This is a frustrated remark from a tea vendor at a small stall ...

Voting right down the ballot paper gives you greater control. It lets you better exercise your democratic rights and fine-tune your political choices WE ARE privileged to have a voting system that ...

BNP Senior Joint Secretary General Ruhul Kabir Rizvi has warned that elections held under the proportional representation (PR) system could lead to numerous anti-political incidents. He was speaking ...

For the sake of wider participatory democracy, there is a strong view in the community that the voting system of proportional representation (PR) -- sometimes also called "full representation" -- ...

The Jamaat-e-Islami and several other like-minded parties have decided to take to the streets to realise their five-point demand that includes holding the election on the basis of the July Charter and ...