Editorial: El País

• The abrupt government change in Bangladesh following three weeks of violently suppressed student protests, which ousted Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and Hasina's replacement by Muhammad Yunus.
• The military top, contrary to fear, resolved the power vacuum and did not seize power.
• Yunus, an economist and Nobel Peace laureate, is faced with the challenge of pulling the country out of a spiral of violence and organizing free and pluralistic elections.
• The protests were prompted by a 30% quota of public posts reserved for war veterans' children, and by the deterioration of democracy in Bangladesh into a kleptocratic dictatorship.

Conclusion: The sudden fall of the dictator and her replacement by Yunus, a figure of prestige, constitutes, at least initially, a message of hope in an increasingly democratic regression scenario.

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