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Weekly Report - 01 June 2017 (WR-17-21)

VENEZUELA: Maduro gets top court’s backing for assembly

The constitutional chamber of Venezuela’s supreme court (TSJ) – whose magistrates, along with the TSJ president, were recently subjected to US sanctions – has ruled that President Nicolás Maduro’s constituent assembly initiative does not need to be put to a public referendum for prior approval. In response, opposition leader Henrique Capriles Radonski declared, “Today, the TSJ has just finished burying participatory democracy in our country.”

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