Weekly Report - 21 December 2017 (WR-17-50)

The threat issued by Venezuela’s President Nicolás Maduro to bar the principal opposition political parties from participating in next year’s presidential elections was substantiated on 20 December. The constituent assembly approved a law stipulating that any political party which fails to participate in any electoral process will have to go through the entire party registration process again. This means collecting the requisite number of signatures and submitting them to the national electoral council (CNE) for approval.

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