‘We’ll never accept proportional representation system’

BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir today said their party will not accept the proportional representation (PR) system of election as people of Bangladesh are not familiar with it.

"We have clearly said we will never accept the PR system because the people of this country are not used to it. They do not know or understand it," he said while talking to reporters at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport after returning home from Thailand.

Fakhrul said the PR system prevents voters from electing their representatives through direct voting.

"The people of Bangladesh want elections as it is the only way to overcome the political and economic crises the country is facing," he said.

The BNP leader said their party is in favour of a free and fair election as per the traditional system.

In the PR system, Fakhrul said, voters do not know for whom they are casting their votes. "That cannot be acceptable."

Regarding Ducsu elections, the BNP secretary general said they hope the polls will be held fairly and properly with everyone's participation.

On August 13, Fakhrul and his wife Rahat Ara Begum went to Thailand's Bangkok, for follow-up eye treatment.