Boost for campaign to oust Venezuela's Maduro

Poll suggests 64 per cent of country would vote to remove embattled leader

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Opponents of Venezuela's embattled President Nicolas Maduro have completed the first phase of their campaign to remove him.

The country's election board announced yesterday that the opposition had collected double the 200,000 petition signatures required to force a recall referendum that could lead to Maduro leaving office.

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