Polls indicate opposition stands to win majority over President Nicolás Maduro in weekend parliamentary election amid grim rates of inflation and crimeVenezuela’s self-styled socialist experiment faces its toughest test yet this weekend in a parliamentary election held amid crippling inflation and spiralling crime that appear to gain turned the tide against the late Hugo Chávez’s “Bolivarian revolution”.
Polls indicate the opposition stand to win a majority of seats in the country’s unicameral National Assembly but President Nicolás Maduro,Chávez’s handpicked successor, has said that he would not hand over the revolution” if the ruling party loses at the polls. Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com