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Weekly Report - 21 April 2016 (WR-16-15)

Venezuela’s national assembly presses on – but to what end?

Refusing to give up in the face of the supreme court’s judicial wall, Venezuela’s opposition Mesa de la Unidad Democrática (MUD) approved a new referendums law this week designed to expedite its planned recall referendum against President Nicolás Maduro. Under the 1999 constitution, elected officials including the president can be recalled once they have served half their term in office. Maduro was elected for a six-year term in early April 2013, so that point is now. If a successful recall referendum is held within the next year, the president steps aside and new elections are held. However, if a referendum takes place any later than April 2017, then the incumbent vice president takes over instead and sees out the rest of the term without fresh elections.

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