Next govt will have to ratify all reform works
Awami League (AL) yesterday said it would ratify all reform initiatives taken by the caretaker government and officially recognise the laws passed under the current regime, if voted to power in the next parliamentary election.
"Not only Awami League but any political party that forms the next government will have to ratify the present government's activities for its own legality," AL spokesman Syed Ashraful Islam told reporters after holding a meeting with South Asia Director of the British Foreign and Commonwealth Office Philip Burton and British Ambassador in Dhaka Stephen Evans at the AL leader's Nam flat residence in the capital.
"If the next parliament fails to ratify the caretaker government's activities, the parliament's own legality will be questioned," said Ashraf, also joint general secretary of AL.
Various issues including the election, post-election situation, election environment and the state of emergency were discussed at the meeting, he said.
Ashraf said when the British officials wanted to know whether there is possibility of any political conflict or instability during and before the national elections, he told them that they hope no clash or conflict would occur centring the parliamentary elections.
Talking to the reporters, Burton said they want a free and fair election on December 18 through which the people would elect a new government.
He also hoped that the state of emergency would be lifted and all political parties would contest the national polls.
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