Venezuela’s electoral council took steps to allow opponents of President Nicolas Maduro to try and initiate a recall referendum against the socialist leader.
The electoral authority delivered to opposition representatives on Tuesday the petition sheets needed to collect around 200,000 signatures to schedule a formal petition drive. The decision would normally draw scant attention except that the process had been mired by administrative hurdles that the opposition sees as an attempt by the government-stacked institution to protect Maduro.
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