Venezuela takes first step toward recall referendum of Nicolás Maduro

[Eugene]

Source: Reuters

Venezuela takes first step toward recall referendum of Nicolás Maduro

Reuters in Caracas
Friday 10 June 2016 20.21 BST

Venezuela’s elections council has said it will begin a process of validating signatures of citizens seeking a recall referendum against the president, Nicolás Maduro, a small step in the opposition’s effort to remove a deeply unpopular leader.

Adversaries of the ruling Socialist party say the election authority is seeking to stall the referendum against Maduro, who is facing heavy criticism due to a steep recession, the world’s highest inflation and Soviet-like product shortages.

The elections council next week will allow citizens who wish to withdraw their names from a list of 1.4 million valid signatures to do so, elections chief Tibisay Lucena said in a news conference on Friday.

The following week, voters who want to leave their names on the list will have to return to have their fingerprints double-checked by elections authorities.

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Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/jun/10/nicolas-maduro-recall-referendum-venezuela-begins-steps

[MADem]

1. He certainly isn't making it easy, is he?

They might as well just do video depositions!

He'd best watch himself--he is terribly unpopular. And I don't think he has as much to worry about from the opposition as he does from his so-called friends, like Diosdado Cabello, who is not without influence amongst those in the Armed Forces, having served WITH Chavez back in the day....