BANGLADESH : Ex-Premier Declines Offer of Cabinet Post
From Times Wire Reports
Former Prime Minister Khaleda Zia has rejected an offer by her rival and successor to join the new Cabinet. Prime Minister Hasina Wajed, whose party is four seats short of a majority in the new Parliament, included in her Cabinet ministers from the Jatiya Party, which finished third, and the National Socialist Party, a small leftist group. Past feuding between Zia and Wajed has threatened the country’s nascent democracy and badly weakened its economy.
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