Tarique Rahman

Tarique Rahman emerged as Bangladesh’s prime minister-elect Friday after his Bangladesh Nationalist Party secured an overwhelming parliamentary majority in the country’s first election since student-led protests toppled longtime ruler Sheikh Hasina in 2024, delivering a historic mandate for political renewal in South Asia’s third-largest nation.

The BNP-led coalition won 209 seats in the 300-member Jatiya Sangsad, or House of the Nation, securing a two-thirds supermajority that gives Rahman’s incoming government broad constitutional authority to implement the sweeping reforms his party campaigned on. The result far exceeded the simple majority required to form a government and confirmed pre-election polling that had …