Venezuela delays announcing endgame of anti-Maduro referendum

Venezuelan authorities have postponed announcing the dates for the final stage in the opposition-led push to call a referendum on removing embattled President Nicolas Maduro from power. According to the opposition, the National Electoral Council (CNE) pushed back from Tuesday to Friday a much-anticipated announcement on when the leftist president's opponents will be allowed to begin collecting the four million signatures needed to trigger a recall vote. The opposition coalition behind the recall campaign, the Democratic Unity Roundtable (MUD), must collect the signatures -- 20 percent of the electorate -- in just three days.

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