The Liberal Democrats, a coalition between the distant heirs of a once-great governing party and more European-style social democrats, have not yet made thesame jump to the radical middle.
Though his father had not survived, and the restoration trade was moribund, he still lived in much thesamestyle as when Malskat first encountered him in 1936, wearing fine suits and smoking fancy cigarettes.
The Jamaat-i-Islami, which won 16 seats, may have firm views about the role of women and be opposed to American-style hamburger bars in Dhaka's city centre, but it does not indulge in thesame level of anti-western talk as its counterparts in Pakistan.