Despite low voter turnout and a boycott by the main opposition, Bangladesh’s prime minister, Sheikh Hasina, emerged victorious in the general election on Monday, securing an absolute majority and a fourth consecutive term, as many had projected. The main opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP), which did not cast a ballot in 2014 but did so in 2018, chose not to participate in the general election in protest of Hasina’s unwillingness to resign and allow an impartial body to monitor it. Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, the prime minister of Bangladesh since 1996, is the father of Hasina, who is 76 years old. She has garnered international attention for providing refuge to Rohingya Muslims who are escaping persecution in Myanmar, and she has been credited with revitalising the economy and the clothing sector.