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Related: About this forumVenezuela electoral body hinders opposition push to remove Maduro
http://www.reuters.com/article/us-venezuela-politics-idUSKCN0X22K0Venezuela's electoral board said it was the only body allowed to reform referendum rules governing removal of the country's president, throwing cold water on opposition plans to recall President Nicolas Maduro amid an economic crisis.
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The opposition's proposed new referendum law "is being undertaken outside the constitutional framework," CNE President Tibisay Lucena said in a letter sent on Monday to the head of the National Assembly.
The assembly's president, Henry Ramos, said on Tuesday the opposition would press on with plans for a recall referendum, one of several strategies it is eyeing to remove Maduro, who won a 2013 election to replace the late Hugo Chavez.
Just under two-thirds of Venezuelans think Maduro's presidency should end this year, a survey by a leading pollster said last month (reut.rs/1UsQhR6).
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Venezuela electoral body hinders opposition push to remove Maduro (Original Post)
Bacchus4.0
Apr 2016
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Thats the only goal. I am thinking Hugo's eldest daughter as a candidate next time round
Bacchus4.0
Apr 2016
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COLGATE4
(14,732 posts)1. Just more anti-democratic obstructionism from
the Chavistas who were salted throughout important government institutions. Their goal is to maintain leadership at all costs, democracy be damned.
Bacchus4.0
(6,837 posts)2. Thats the only goal. I am thinking Hugo's eldest daughter as a candidate next time round
I don't see any chavista in the entire country that people would vote for, including her, but she already is living in the presidential palace at least.
COLGATE4
(14,732 posts)3. Makes sense to me. I doubt she'd be any worse
than Maduro. Looking at the way she and Mama spend, they are unqestionably real capitalists!
Bacchus4.0
(6,837 posts)4. I think she is the richest woman in Venezuela. Earned through hard work
and wise investing no doubt.
COLGATE4
(14,732 posts)5. Don't forget the 'scrimping'and 'saving', getting by
on only a poor Army officer's salary. Almost brings tears to my eyes.