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Venezuela: MPs gear up for new bid to oust Maduro
Rightwingers appeal for foreign intervention

VENEZUELA’S right-wing opposition moved to delegitimise the socialist government on Sunday in a clear attempt at a parliamentary coup.

The Democratic Unity Roundtable (Mud)-controlled National Assembly passed an “accord” accusing President Nicolas Maduro’s United Socialist Party (PSUV) government of a “rupture of the constitutional order.”

It blamed the government for the independent National Electoral Council’s decision to postpone the Mud’s petitioning for a presidential recall

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