As we went to press three opposition politicians had offered to give up their seats in Venezuela’s national assembly (AN) pending a potential investigation by electoral authorities into allegations of voting irregularities in the legislative elections on 6 December 2015. The case of the three prompted the first major clash of powers between the national assembly and the supreme court (TSJ), which came down so hard on the legislature, now-controlled by the opposition coalition Mesa de la Unidad Democrática (MUD), that the MUD alleged an institutional coup (‘autogolpe’). In an interesting and potentially significant turn, a truce of sorts was hammered out at the last minute between the AN president and the country’s new vice-president.
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