, Sept. 5 -- Transparency International (TI) Chair Francois Valerian has said Bangladesh has the historic opportunity to create a new democracy, not a democracy of the past, which in many countries consisted and still consists solely of more or less regular elections held to select those who will extract profit from power, but the democracy of the future.

He laid emphasis on the full participation of the young people, women and marginalised communities in the process, a democracy where power, in the true sense of the word, at last belongs to the people.

The TI chair talked about a kind of democracy where all the citizens are considered as who they are, - the public officials, private sector employers and political leaders are accountabl...