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Venezuela: Mud MPs finally succumb to court order and resign
VENEZUELA’S opposition suffered another blow on Tuesday after three of its MPs finally heeded a court order demanding their resignation.
The three politicians had been banned from the National Assembly in January this year by the Supreme Court under allegations of fraud.
However the Democratic Unity Roundtable (Mud) — a coalition of right-wing parties — defied the ruling by reinstating them in July, creating a crisis where the assembly was deemed to be sitting in breach of the constitution.
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