Venezuela’s opposition voted to end Juan Guaidó’s so-called interim government, four years after the United States and dozens of other countries lined up behind him in an attempt to oust President Nicolás Maduro.
The opposition-led National Assembly by a 72-24 margin with nine abstentions on Thursday voted against renewing Guaido’s mandate for another year. A second and definitive vote is to be held Dec. 29, and if he loses that ballot his term would end Jan. 5.
Lawmakers signaled they were tired of a strategy that failed to remove Maduro despite broad international support and pressure on the government. The vote represents not only a political failure for the increasingly unpopular Guaidó but also for the fractured opposition that has made no headway in unseating Maduro.
