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Montevideo, November 23rd 2024 - 13:01 UTC

Tag: Electoral Council

  • Wednesday, February 20th 2019 - 16:15 UTC

    Maduro challenges Guaido to call elections

    Elections in Venezuela are organized by the National Electoral Council, where four out of the five rectors are manifestly militants of the ruling party and their terms are expired.

    The head of Venezuela's ruling regime, Nicolás Maduro, asked the head of the National Assembly (AN), Juan Guaidó, recognized as interim president of the same nation by some 50 countries, to call presidential elections on Tuesday. Maduro's challenge is given because he believes he would defeat him and this would put an end to the dispute over the executive power that has marked an institutional crisis unprecedented in the Caribbean country.