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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Camille Rodriguez Montilla and Joshua Goodman

Exiled Venezuela lawmakers chosen to lead anti-Maduro fight

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Venezuela’s opposition has selected an all-female team of mostly unknown exiled former lawmakers to replace the beleaguered Juan Guaidó as the face of its faltering efforts to remove socialist President Nicolas Maduro.

Last week, politicians who were elected to the National Assembly in 2015 voted to oust Guaidó from his role as “interim president,” a title he claimed as head of what was widely considered the South American nation's last democratically-elected institution.

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