general election

A general election is scheduled to be held in Bangladesh on 29 December 2008, after being postponed from the original date of 18 December 2008.[1] They were originally scheduled for 21 January 2007, but postponed by two days due to demands by the opposition made in December 2006.[2] They were put back by one day to 22 January,[3] and subsequently postponed for an extended period due to opposition protests and boycott threats.