Venezuela opposition wins supermajority in National Assembly
The votes are in, and Venezuela's opposition won a two-thirds majority in the National Assembly, with 112 out of 167 seats.
The final results from Sunday's elections were released Tuesday by the National Electoral Council. With its supermajority, the Democratic Unity alliance has the votes needed to remove Supreme Court justices and convene an assembly to rewrite Hugo Chavez's 1999 constitution, The Associated Press reports. President Nicolas Maduro's term ends in 2019, but members of the opposition are already talking about cutting it short. Maduro says the socialists, in power for the last 17 years, lost because of a right-wing "counterrevolution" that wants to sabotage Venezuela's economy.
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