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Weekly Report - 12 March 2020 (WR-20-10)
VENEZUELA: Electoral talks suffer setback
Less than a week after a negotiated agreement to appoint a new electoral council (CNE) in Venezuela [WR-20-09] – a rare (albeit tentative) step forward in the struggle for a peaceful solution to the country’s political crisis – these fledgling hopes of democratic progress were put in stark perspective on 6 March by a fire that destroyed the majority of the country’s electronic voting infrastructure.
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