Muhammad Yunus compares the guidance task to clear after tornado

Bangladesh’s temporary leader says he felt “dazzling” when asked to take responsibility after Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina was expelled last year.

“I did not imagine that I would govern the government,” Muhammad Yunus said at the BBC. “I had never managed a state machine before and had to get the buttons properly.

“After it got a job, we started organizing things,” said an economist who won Nobel, adding that law enforcement and correction of economics for the country.

It is unclear when Hasina, who escaped into the exile to India and her party will take part in the elections Yunus, hopes to hold at the end of this year. Her search in Bangladesh for Allegedly crime against humanity.

“They (the Avas League) have to decide whether they want to do it, I cannot decide for them,” Yunus said in an interview with the BBC in his official residence in Dac.

“The election commission decides who is participating in the elections.”

He said: “Peace and order are the most important thing, and the economy. This is the destroyed economy, the destroyed economy.

“It seems to have been a scary tornado for 16 years and we are trying to pick up works.”

Sheikh Hasina was elected Prime Minister in 2009 and led Bangladesh with an iron fist. The members of its League government are mercilessly cramped with dissent. There were widespread accusations of human rights violations and murder and prison of political competitors when it was prime minister.

A The uprising led by students forced MS Hasina from office in August. At the will of the protesters, Yunus returned to Bangladesh to head a new Provisional Government.

He says he will hold elections between December 2025 and March 2026, depending on how fast his government can create the reforms he considers to be necessary for free and fair elections.

“If the reforms can be done as fast as we want, then in December the time came when we are holding elections. If you have a longer reform version, we may need a few more months.”

“We come from a complete disorder,” he said, citing fierce protests that joined Bangladesh last summer. “People shot dead, killed.”

But almost seven months people say that the law and order have not yet been restored, and that everything is not getting better.

“Better is a relative term,” he said. “If you compare it with the last year, for example, at the same time, it looks normal.

“What is happening now is no different from any other time.”

Yunus accuses Bangladesh for many current troubles in the previous government.

“I do not support what these things should happen. I say that you have to consider, we are not the perfect country or the perfect city that we suddenly did. This is the continuum of the country we have inherited, a country that has been working for many years.”

The victims of the tough regime of Sheikh Hasina remain evil. Thousands of demonstrators took to the streets in recent months, demanding that it be held accountable for the deadly repression of protest students.

A court in Bangladesh issued an arrest warrantBut India has not yet answered.

Now, under the leadership of Yunus there are questions about the security of those who belong to the political party Sheikh Hasin.

In February, several houses of the League League members, including Bangladesh, the late father of Hasin, Sheikh Mujibura Rakhman, were collected and set fire after her fans were told that she would give an address on YouTube.

A temporary government has been accused of justifying violence in a social media report.

When asked by the BBC about the claims of the League members, Bangladesh is not safe for them, Yunus quickly defended his government.

“There is a court, there is a law, there is a police station, they can go and complain, register their complaint,” he said. “You just don’t go to the BBC correspondent to complain, you go to the police to complain and see if the law goes.”

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“This is their decision,” Yunus says.

“It was useful. Because they do things we wanted to do, for example, fight against corruption and things that we couldn’t afford right away.”

The United States is the third largest provider of official assistance in Bangladesh development. Last year, the United States committed $ 450 million.

Asked how he would be deficit, UNUS says, “If that happens, we will do.”