05-01-2017 19:48 via uk.news.yahoo.com

Venezuela opposition seeks new polls, military help, against Maduro

By Andrew Cawthorne and Diego Oré CARACAS (Reuters) - Venezuela's opposition, still smarting from its failure to remove President Nicolas Maduro last year, installed a new congress head on Thursday who demanded across-the-board elections and sought military help to end "dictatorship". In a renewal of Venezuela's bitter politics after the holiday lull, the ruling Socialist Party responded that the National Assembly was in contempt of the law. Maduro forecast its imminent "self-dissolution.
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