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Venezuela: Three Assembly members removed

Venezuelan assembly removes three deputies until race dispute is resolved. Opposition-controlled parliament obeys Supreme Court contempt ruling

The head of Venezuela’s National Assembly has said that three lawmakers whose elections last month are being challenged at the Supreme Court will abandon their seats until the controversy is resolved.

The announcement by assembly speaker Henry Ramos Allup to CNN en Español came a day after the top court held the opposition-controlled legislative body in contempt for allowing the lawmakers from Amazonas state to be sworn in.

The National Assembly today did not hold its scheduled session for lack of quorum: nobody showed up.

What is going on is very simple and comes from many previous posts: the regime is hell bent on annulling the new assembly.

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