A Venezuelan opposition coalition has been granted permission to contest regional elections in November after a three-year ban, the country’s electoral council said Tuesday.
The Democratic Unity Roundtable, known by its Spanish acronym MUD, has been cleared for “participation in the next elections” for governors and mayors on November 21, said National Electoral Council (CNE) chief Pedro Calzadilla.
In 2015, the MUD won 112 of 167 seats on the National Assembly, giving President Nicolas Maduro’s regime its biggest-ever defeat.
But in 2018, ahead of presidential elections in which Maduro claimed victory, the MUD was disqualified from participating by the regime-aligned Supreme Tribunal of Justice, which argued it was not a political party but an alliance.