CAMPAIGNING for Sunday’s parliamentary election in Venezuela has ended with President Nicolas Maduro calling for a peaceful vote.

Further electioneering was halted yesterday by law. Sales of alcohol, fireworks and weapons are also banned until after the poll.

Mr Maduro spoke at a huge final campaign rally for the Great Patriotic Pole (GPP) coalition in the centre of the capital, Caracas, where the streets were awash with red-shirted supporters.