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Venezuela: Fraud claims trip up right-wing bid to oust Maduro
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VENEZUELA’S elections council (CNE) postponed next week’s petition for a presidential recall referendum on Thursday over allegations of fraud.
Courts in five states found irregularities in the earlier stage of petitioning, when the right-wing opposition Democratic Unity Roundtable (Mud) had to garner the signatures of 1 per cent of the national electorate.
The Mud was preparing to collect 3.9 million signatures between Wednesday and Friday next week — 20 per cent of registered voters — for the removal of United Socialist Party (PSUV) President Nicolas Maduro.
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