Voters dismiss the party of Hugo Chavez and Nicolas Maduro,handing the opposition a resounding victory and marking a major political shiftVenezuela’s opposition has won an overwhelming victory in parliamentary elections in the oil-wealthy nation, which is mired in economic turmoil and violent crime.
Candidates for the centre-upright opposition seized a majority in the national assembly, and with most of the results in,marking a major political shift in the country, which set out on a leftist path in 1999 under the late president Hugo Chavez and his project to make Venezuela a model of what he called “21st century socialism”.
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Source: theguardian.com