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Weekly Report - 25 August 2016 (WR-16-33)
VENEZUELA: Maduro reaches back to 2004 for scare tactics
Government-appointed public servants at managerial level in five ministries face removal for signing the opposition-initiated recall referendum petition against President Nicolás Maduro. Jorge Rodríguez, of the ruling Partido Socialista Unido de Venezuela (PSUV), the prominent mayor of the central Caracas municipality of Libertador and Maduro’s ‘presidential designate’ for the recall referendum – whose duties notably included overseeing the signature validation process by the national electoral council (CNE) –announced a 48-hour deadline on 23 August for the ‘re-assignment’ of all managerial-level civil servants in the food, finance, labour and basic industries ministries, as well as the office of the presidency.
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