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The Venezuelan President was accused of coup while he was in Riyadh

Президента Венесуэлы обвинили в госперевороте, пока он был в Эр-Рияде

The Venezuelan leader Nicolas Maduro has been accused in the homeland in the coup, while negotiating with Saudi Arabia about the ways of stabilization of the oil market. Condemning the policy of the head of States were controlled by the opposition, the Venezuelan Parliament, reports the British news service BBC. The majority of deputies believe that Maduro has blocked the holding of a referendum for the impeachment of the President.

The opposition majority in the Parliament managed to push the acceptance of the application, which States that the Cabinet of Ministers headed by Maduro violated the Constitution. Members of Congress from among the opponents of the current government of Venezuela threaten to bring people to the streets.

The reason for the demarche of the legislature was the Friday decision of the National electoral Council of Venezuela. He decided to suspend further preparation of the referendum on early termination of powers of the President. This verdict stems from the fact that a number of regional courts invalidated the opposition collected signatures in support of impeachment.

Even before the national electoral Council rejected the possibility of a referendum on the subject this year. In the case of the referendum in 2017 and the ouster of Maduro duties of the President will temporarily perform the Vice-President of Venezuela, however, the socialists will remain in power. However, just before a new presidential election.

Saudi Arabia, supported by Venezuela

Maduro spent all weekend on a trip to the Saudi capital Riyadh. On Sunday, he held talks with the major OPEC oil producer on the subject of speedy stabilization of supply and demand in the oil market.

Venezuela more than other oil-producing countries has an interest in limiting production, as stronger affected by low oil prices. The country erupted full-blown economic crisis with all its attendant attributes, including the repeated devaluation of the currency and the trade deficit. The opposition blamed the incident Maduro, successor to deceased former President Hugo Chavez, considering in General a wrong undertaken by the socialist policy.

In the end, Saudi Arabia has supported yesterday the proposal of Venezuela to reach consensus on the stabilization of the oil market. This was announced via his Twitter account, the Minister of oil of Venezuela, Eulochio del Pino, who also participated in the talks in Riyadh.

“Saudi Arabia and Venezuela are major oil producers, and together we can reach consensus,” wrote del Pino in his microblog after the meeting with the Minister of energy of Saudi Arabia Khalid al-Valicom.

Recall that Venezuela has the alarm with the beginning of the year, calling on all oil powers together to take action to lift oil prices. OPEC’s informal meeting in Algeria on 28 September agreed to limit the total production at the level of 32.5-33 million barrels of oil per day. However, for a number of countries will identify a personal quota of production at formal Ministerial session of the oil cartel, which will take place on November 30 in Vienna. It is assumed that the brackets of the General agreement will be withdrawn Iran, Libya and Nigeria who are now rebuilding their market share of oil lost due to political turmoil.

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