Venezuela opposition claims enough signatures to launch recall of Maduro

The leader of the campaign to recall Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro said Friday that the opposition has validated more than twice the number of signatures needed to initiate the process of convening a referendum.

"In total, despite all those obstacles, of everything that happened, of all the people who were left out, of all who were excluded ... despite everything, 409,313 patriotic Venezuelans managed to validate their signatures," two-time presidential candidate Henrique Capriles said.

Capriles detailed the figures with the head of the MUD opposition alliance at the conclusion of the five days the group was given by electoral authorities to validate the signatures.

Once the process of signature validation is finalized, the MUD still needs to get support from 20 percent of registered voters - some 4 million people - to activate the referendum aimed at ousting Maduro.
EFE
25/6/16
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