The Bangladesh President has declared a state of emergency. This is a formal one where troops go out on the streets, curfews are enforced and presumably the civil justice system takes a hiatus and executive judicial decisions take over. The President's unconstitutional assumption of the role as chief of the care-taker government was already an example of an executive declaring a state of emergency.
Unfortunately I cannot find a transcript of the Bangladeshi President's radio address. So I cannot see what it says. Damn language barrier. The situation has deteriorated enough that the United Nations has pulled out from providing election oversight.
Bangladesh is in trouble, it has political parties in the legislative that are unable to come to agreement or compromise, it has a president who has established two emergencies now and is willing to ignore the constitution to that end. And there is street violence and disorder. It is looking like political collapse.
Update The Bangladeshi President, Iajuddin Ahmed, has stepped down as head of the caretaker government and a former head of the central bank is now chief caretaker.
