Bangladesh, April 29 -- The European Union Election Observation Mission (EU EOM) has called for comprehensive legal and institutional reforms to strengthen the future of democracy in Bangladesh.

Chief Observer Ivars Ijabs, who returned to Dhaka to present the mission's final report, described the recent elections as a "pivotal step" towards restoring democratic governance.

However, he stressed that significant reforms are still required to address systemic shortcomings in the electoral process.

He made the remarks during the presentation of the report at a city hotel on Tuesday.

Based on an extensive observation exercise involving 223 observers who held more than 1,000 meetings across all 64 districts, the mission concluded that the ...