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Weekly Report - 03 December 2015 (WR-15-48)
VENEZUELA: Opposition aspires to magic number
What could the opposition Mesa de la Unidad Democrática (MUD) do with (an expected) simple majority in the unicameral national assembly? The Venezuelan constitutionalist Hermann Escarrá, who helped draft the 1999 constitution introduced by the late president Hugo Chávez (1999-2013), makes the point that while Venezuela is not a parliamentary system, neither does it have the kind of “exaggerated” presidentialist system found in other countries, because the Chavista constitution in fact assigns the legislature a concrete set of attributes and competencies that allow it to exert strong control. Therein lies the importance of the 6 December vote, he notes.
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