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| | Bangladesh - Begum Khaleda Zia - BNP - Worldpress.org (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16) |
 | | Begum Khaleda Zia, Chairwoman of the Bangladesh National Party (BNP), swept to power with a massive electoral landslide on Oct. 1, beating out her longtime rival, Sheikh Hasina Wazed, the president of the Awami League and the first Bangladeshi leader to serve a full five-year term as prime minister. |
 | | Sheikh Hasina herself rejected the verdict and boycotted Zia’s swearing-in ceremony, despite insistence by international monitors that the elections had been free and fair. |
 | | Zia, the widow of an assassinated military dictator, and Sheikh Hasina, daughter of the nation’s first elected leader, Sheik Mujibur Rahman, have long jockeyed with each other for power in Bangladesh. |
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