{"id":7200,"date":"2026-02-05T14:11:15","date_gmt":"2026-02-05T14:11:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hernet.news\/?p=7200"},"modified":"2026-02-05T14:11:15","modified_gmt":"2026-02-05T14:11:15","slug":"power-transfer-wont-slip-past-feb-17-18-says-chief-advisers-press-secretary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hernet.news\/?p=7200","title":{"rendered":"Power Transfer \u2018Won\u2019t Slip Past Feb 17\u201318,\u2019 Says Chief Adviser\u2019s Press Secretary"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Bangladesh\u2019s interim administration expects to hand over power to the incoming elected government \u201cas quickly as possible,\u201d and in any case <strong>no later than Feb 17\u201318<\/strong>, the chief adviser\u2019s press secretary Shafiqul Alam told reporters at the Foreign Service Academy after an advisers\u2019 council meeting chaired by Muhammad Yunus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Voting for the 13th National Parliament and the nationwide referendum on the July National Charter is scheduled for <strong>Feb 12<\/strong>. Outlining a rapid transition path, Shafiqul said the sequence could be completed \u201cwithin three days\u201d if newly elected MPs are sworn in swiftly and the majority leader is invited to take the oath as prime minister\u2014potentially by <strong>Feb 15\u201316<\/strong>. \u201cWe don\u2019t see it going beyond the 17th or 18th,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Echoing the timeline, deputy press secretary Mohammad Abul Kalam Azad Mazumder said the goal remains to transfer responsibilities to elected representatives \u201cas soon as possible\u201d once results are finalized.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On swearing-in mechanics for MPs, law adviser Asif Nazrul said two options are under consideration at the policy level: a person nominated by the president\u2014\u201cfor example, the chief justice\u201d\u2014or the chief election commissioner. The latter route would require a <strong>three-day wait<\/strong>, which the interim authorities \u201cwould prefer to avoid\u201d in order to accelerate the transition, he noted.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Officials emphasized that the focus is on an efficient, orderly handover consistent with constitutional practice, with the interim government stepping aside promptly so a newly mandated administration can form in Bangladesh.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bangladesh\u2019s interim administration expects to hand over power to the incoming elected government \u201cas quickly as possible,\u201d and in any case no later than Feb 17\u201318, the chief adviser\u2019s press secretary Shafiqul Alam told reporters at the Foreign Service Academy after an advisers\u2019 council meeting chaired by Muhammad Yunus. Voting for the 13th National Parliament [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":7203,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7200","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-5"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hernet.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7200","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hernet.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hernet.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hernet.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hernet.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7200"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hernet.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7200\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7204,"href":"https:\/\/hernet.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7200\/revisions\/7204"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hernet.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/7203"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hernet.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7200"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hernet.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7200"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hernet.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}