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Weekly Report - 12 October 2017 (WR-17-40)

VENEZUELA: MUD in pole position but…

On the face of it, the main opposition coalition, Mesa de la Unidad Democrática (MUD), should score an even bigger victory in regional elections on 15 October than it did in the December 2016 legislative elections, when it won majority control of the national assembly from the ruling Partido Socialista Unido de Venezuela (PSUV). The International Monetary Fund (IMF), the Berlin-based NGO Transparency International (TI), and the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) just did the MUD a favour with new reports heavily critical of the performance of the government led by President Nicolás Maduro. Yet Maduro, regularly dismissed by the MUD as a hapless ex-bus driver, will not be dislodged just yet.

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