CARACAS: Venezuela's electoral commission suspended a signature-collection drive for a referendum to remove President Nicolas Maduro from power, further crippling the opposition campaign.

The commission said on Thursday it was acting in compliance with courts which earlier in the day ruled against the opposition's efforts to rid the crisis-stricken oil power of Maduro.

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