Allies of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro are disputing the election of eight opposition candidates to the National Assembly, a move the opposition says seeks to undermine its landslide victory in legislative elections.
On Tuesday, the Supreme Court said it had received motions by losing candidates to overturn the results in several districts. It didn’t say on what grounds the challenges were made and nobody from the country’s highest court would comment publicly.
Winning the appeal could lead to the elections being repeated.
If the court were to overturn the results any reruns could deprive the opposition alliance of the two-thirds “supermajority” it won this month by a single seat and which greatly enhances its power to rein in Maduro, sack Cabinet ministers and even convoke an assembly to rewrite Hugo Chávez’s 1999 Constitution.
The situation is fuelling new concerns of a looming power struggle between Maduro and a legislature controlled by the opposition, which accuses him of seeking to chip away at its ballot-box success.
I had a feeling that this could have occurred. We never know. The Venezuelan election could have been rigged in favor of the majority who it is assumed were elected . Think about it.
They may have to go with him; else he may go with them.
Hopefully the people of Venezuela will not play dead like the people in dominica who seem to be scared of a scandalous regime.
Maduro’s demise coming even sooner than we believed by shooting himself in the foot like this. People will rise one way or the other. They always do against tyrants and dictators, left wing or rightwing ,doesn’t matter.
Maybe in Venezuela but certainly not in Dominica! People to stupid here and happy with the crumbs of Skerrit’s table.