CARACAS: Venezuelan electoral authorities are due to meet on Monday to rule on the opposition’s bid for a referendum on removing President Nicolas Maduro from power amid an economic implosion.

The National Electoral Council (CNE) left the opposition hanging last Tuesday, its original deadline to rule on whether Maduro’s opponents had successfully gathered 200,000 signatures on a petition to make the leftist leader face a recall vote.

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