This Sunday, the regime of Nicolas Maduro will hold a sham parliamentary election in Venezuela. The purpose of this “election” is to renew the Venezuelan National Assembly, which is the only institution controlled by the Venezuelan opposition, and the only institution internationally recognized as legitimate and democratic. By holding this fraudulent election, the Maduro regime hopes to bring down its only domestic threat: the interim government of Juan Guaido.
This “election” will be held exactly five years after Venezuela experienced its last real election, when the Venezuelan opposition won the country’s national assembly by a landslide, winning two-thirds of the parliament. At the time, such an overwhelming victory against Maduro led most Venezuelans to believe that change was right around the corner.
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