Chavez’s United Socialist Party (PSUV) still won a majority of seats in Sunday’s poll, but will now be unable to pass major legislation unaided.

BBC News

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Electoral authorities announced that the PSUV won at least 90 places, and the opposition umbrella group Table for Democratic Unity (MUD) at least 59 – surpassing the key target of 55, which would see the PSUV’s two-thirds majority overturned.

The opposition focused its election campaign on rising crime and rising inflation, reports the BBC’s Will Grant in Caracas.

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