Maduro move

Venezuela’s unpopular leftist President Nicolas Maduro vowed yesterday to push ahead in July with the formation of a “constituent assembly” to rewrite the constitution before regional elections in December. In an apparent bid to show the Government was seeking a democratic solution to unrest that has left 55 people dead in the past two months, the head of the progovernment electoral council said voting for a controversial “constituent assembly” would be held in late July. The opposition reacted with fury, convinced that these moves were Maduro’s way of clinging to power.