The very fact of calling a referendum alongside the election by the interim Yunus regime was flawed. The referendum proposal placed before Bangladesh’s people did not meet such criteria. Or travel back to France in April 1969, when a referendum proposal President Charles de Gaulle placed before his people met with a decisive “no.” De Gaulle resigned. No constitution in a parliamentary system recommends that an individual not occupy the office of prime minister for more than two terms. It must be said that those behind the referendum proposal, unhappy with the present constitution and believing that the August 2024 political changeover was a revolution, were obsessed with thoughts of a change in the nomenclature of the republic.
