Incoming lawmakers promise to invent sweeping changes while the late Hugo Chvez’s socialist party says it will stand its ground in the legislatureVenezuela’s opposition has been sworn as the majority in the country’s National Assembly,marking the first time in 17 years that opponents of the socialist revolution begun by the late Hugo Chávez have controlled the legislature.
Voting to approve the legislature’s new leadership followed debate over whether to purchase the oath of 163 or 167 lawmakers following a supreme court ruling barring four elected representatives from taking their seats over allegations of fraud, depriving the opposition of a two-thirds majority.
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Source: theguardian.com