Venezuela’s Opposition is readying a new showdown with President Nicolas Maduro, rescheduling a massive protest to coincide with his inauguration of a powerful new Assembly set to replace congress.
Maduro faces mounting accusations at home and abroad of trampling on democracy with his “Constituent Assembly,” elected Sunday in a vote boycotted by the opposition and allegedly marred by fraud.
The 545-member Assembly — whose members include Maduro’s wife and son — was initially due to start work on Thursday. The Opposition Democratic Unity Roundtable (MUD), which holds a large majority in congress, had called for a major protest in Caracas on the same day.