The recent landslide victory (with a huge turnout) for the Awami League in Bangladesh’s first election in seven years, after two years of a military-backed caretaker government, has moved the country to the forefront of the battle between secular democrats and Islamists that is now underway across South Asia. The election was a credit to the country's democratic yearnings – and I say that as the chairman of the European Parliament's short-term election observation mission to Bangladesh.
在由军方支持的看守政府统治两年后，人民联盟党在最近举行的孟加拉国七年来的首次选举中的取得了压倒性的胜利（且是高票获胜），它已经将该国推向了非宗教的民主人士和伊斯兰分子之间战斗的前沿，这种战斗目前正席卷南亚地区。这次选举是对该国人民的民主憧憬的承认-作为欧洲议会派到孟加拉国的短期选举观察团的主席，我可以这么说。