Bangladesh's opposition has confirmed it will boycott a general election scheduled for January 5 ahead of the final deadline for nominations, plunging the volatile country into political uncertainty.
"There is no question of us filing nominations for the January 5 election under the present circumstances. We're not going to take part in the January 5 elections," Shamsher Mobin Chowdhury, a vice-president of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP), told AFP.
Monday is the last day for nominations with the final cutoff at 05:00pm (2200 AEDT) .
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