Venezuela’s congress approved a new electoral board Tuesday including two of President Nicolas Maduro’s opponents, a move that could persuade sectors of the opposition to participate in this year’s regional elections and beyond.
Enrique Marquez, a harsh critic of Maduro’s policies and former vice president of the National Assembly, as well as Roberto Picon, long-time opposition electoral adviser who was jailed for six months in 2017 under accusations of treason, were approved by the government-controlled National Assembly from a list of 103 candidates for the the CNE, as the electoral board is known.
