Iajuddin Ahmed

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Iajuddin Ahmed ( Bengali ইয়াজউদ্দীন আহমেদ Iyājuddīn Āhmed ; born February 1, 1931 in Bikrampur ; † December 10, 2012 in Bangkok ) was a Bangladeshi politician and head of state of his country from 2002 to 2009. He was the son of Moulvi Ibrahim .

Life

After studying soil science at the University of Dhaka , Ahmed received his doctorate in the USA in 1962 . After studying at the University of Wisconsin – Madison , he returned to Bangladesh and in 1973 became professor and head of the soil science department at Dhaka University. Ahmed was also the dean of the Faculty of Biological Sciences in the capital. Ahmed later also held visiting professorships in Germany and the USA and most recently held the position of Vice Chancellor of the private Bangladesh University.

On September 6, 2002, he was sworn in as the successor to Badruddoza Chowdhury as the 17th President of Bangladesh.

On January 11, 2007, Ahmed declared a state of emergency on his country after serious unrest before the controversial parliamentary elections planned for January 22 were held . He intended to ensure "free and fair" elections. He also resigned from his post as head of the transitional government to hand it over to his advisor, Fazlul Haque . The unrest was sparked by allegations of falsifying election lists by the opposition Awami League , which accused the government of having invented 14 million “phantom voters” . The European Union and the UN then withdrew their election observers from Bangladesh and expressed their concerns about the future prospects of democracy there.

Even after the constitutional expiry of his term on September 5, 2007, Iajuddin Ahmed remained in the presidency. In the presidential elections on February 11, 2009, Zillur Rahman , who was the only candidate, was proclaimed president by the electoral commission and sworn in the following day.

Web links

Single receipts

  1. ^ President, PM condole death of Iajuddin
  2. ↑ www.tagesschau.de (tagesschau.de archive)
  3. ↑ The Daily Star (Dhaka)
  4. ↑ Archive link ( Memento from September 23, 2015 in the Internet Archive )
personal data
SURNAME Ahmed, Iajuddin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Bangladeshi politician and former head of state
DATE OF BIRTH February 1, 1931
PLACE OF BIRTH Bikrampur
DATE OF DEATH December 10, 2012
Place of death Bangkok