Jatiya Sangsad

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The Parliament Building in Dhaka (2014)

The Jatiya Sangsad ( Bengali জাতীয় সংসদ jātīẏa saṃsad , "national parliament ") is the parliament in the unicameral system of Bangladesh .

The parliament has 350 members, 300 of which are directly elected in individual constituencies for five years according to simple majority voting in 300 constituencies. All citizens over the age of 18 are entitled to vote. 50 additional parliamentary seats are reserved for women (see below). The leader of the majority party in parliament is usually appointed Prime Minister of Bangladesh .

The parliament is located in the parliament building Jatiya Sangsad Bhaban , which is one of the largest parliament buildings in the world.

Seats reserved for women

Since traditionally only a few women ran for elections (for example 38 women out of 1939 candidates in the 2001 parliamentary elections ), the Bangladeshi constitution provided from the beginning in a temporary provision that the elected parliament could elect a few additional female MPs in order to increase the proportion of women . The number of these additional seats reserved for women was 15 initially and 30 from 1979 onwards. This regulation expired in 1987 but was re-enacted in 1990 and remained in force until 2000. On May 16, 2004, Parliament passed the 14th amendment to the Constitution, according to which 45 female MPs should be elected for the next 10 years. In contrast to the previous regulation, where the respective majority parliamentary group could determine all elected members, in future these were to be allocated according to the seat share of the parties. On July 19, 2018, Parliament passed the 17th amendment to the Constitution, which provided 50 additional seats reserved for women for the next 25 years.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Pranab Kumar Panday: Representation without Participation: Quotas for Women in Bangladesh . In: International Political Science Review / Revue internationale de science politique . tape 29 , no. 4 . Sage Publications, September 2008, pp. 489-512 , JSTOR : 20445157 (English).
  2. Haroon Habib: A controversial amendment. Frontline, June 18, 2004, accessed May 11, 2020 .
  3. Nizam Ahmed, Sadik Hasan: Alangkar or Ahangkar? Reserved-Seat Women Members in the Bangladesh Parliament . In: N. Ahmed (Ed.): Women in Governing Institutions in South Asia . Springer-Verlag, 2018, ISBN 978-3-319-57474-5 , pp. 17-18 , doi : 10.1007 / 978-3-319-57475-2_2 (English, pdf ).
  4. Parliament passes 17th amendment to extend reserve seats for women for 25 years. bdnews24.com, July 9, 2018, accessed May 12, 2020 .