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Thursday 31 May 2018

Rival of Venezuela President Maduro demands new election

CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) Maduro winning a
— The man who finished second six-year term in a
second in Venezuela's landslide victory on May
recent presidential election 20 despite a historic crisis
asked the nation's Supreme in the once-wealthy OPEC
Court on Wednesday to nation marked by food
order a new vote, citing and medicine shortages
deep flaws in the process sending masses into exile.
that extends leader Nicolas Many nations have
Maduro's time in power. criticized the vote as unfair
The challenge by Henri and international pressure
Falcon came on the has been mounting.
same day that Canada Canada on Wednesday
registered its protest of the hit Flores and other
widely criticized vote by Former presidential candidate Henri Falcon greets members of the press as he arrives to the Venezuelan officials with
imposing sanctions on first Supreme Court in Caracas, Venezuela, Wednesday, May 30, 2018. sanctions, condemning the
lady Cilia Flores and 13 Associated Press election as illegitimate and
other people linked to the anti-democratic.
government. the election by setting up "Those elections did not to prosper in the Supreme The measure essentially
Falcon argued that kiosks near voting centers exist," Falcon said. "They Court, stacked with bans Canadians from
Maduro's ruling socialist and giving poor residents must be declared null." Maduro loyalists. doing business with
party unfairly influenced bonuses. But the appeal is unlikely Official results showed targeted Venezuelans.q

Business leaders urge early vote to resolve Nicaragua crisis

Carlos Pellas Chamorro, the power during his last 11 read the statement signed
country's most prominent years in office. by the group's president,
businessman and believed There was no immediate Roberto Zamora.
to be the Central American reaction from Ortega's Protests that began in
nation's first billionaire, said government. April over now-scrapped
in an interview with La Ortega most recently won social security changes
Prensa newspaper that re-election in November have since expanded
the Ortega government's 2016, when opposition into a broader movement
political model is "worn out." leaders had called for seeking Ortega's exit.
He called for the election of a boycott, accused the Human rights observers say
a new government through president of rigging things more than 80 people have
"a free and transparent in his favor and accused been killed amid a harsh
process." him of dynastic ambitions crackdown by government
"We must find an orderly for picking first lady security forces and allied
solution, within the Rosario Murillo as his vice civilian groups, along with
constitutional framework," presidential running mate. nearly 900 wounded and
Pellas added, "which Grupo Lafise Bancocentro, over 400 arrested.
A police officer aims his shotgun at two men riding a motorcycle
during a protest against Nicaragua's President Daniel Ortega in implies reforms that entail one of the largest Amnesty International
Managua, Nicaragua, Monday, May 28, 2018. moving up the elections" conglomerates in issued a report this week
Associated Press that right now are due to Nicaragua, also called for accusing authorities of
take place in 2021. the next presidential vote a strategy of repression
By LUIS MANUEL GALEANO weeks of deadly unrest Pellas urged the immediate to be moved up. characterized by the
Associated Press and a political standoff resignation of the entire "Let it be the will of the excessive use of force,
MANAGUA, Nicaragua between President Daniel electoral council, which people through early extrajudicial executions,
(AP) — Influential business Ortega's government and has been accused of elections that establishes control of the media and
leaders called Wednesday protesters demanding his manipulating things to justice, democracy and the use of para-political
for early elections to resolve exit from office. allow Ortega to consolidate freedom in our country," groups to quash protests.q