Venezuela's Maduro meets foreign observers ahead of assembly vote

Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro has met with foreign delegations who arrived in the country earlier to monitor the parliamentary elections.

Maduro and his allies are poised to win back control of the National Assembly in elections on Sunday. The president has vowed “to step down if opposition wins parliamentary polls.”

The Venezuelan leader met observer delegations from Russia, Iran and Turkey on Saturday. He also met with Bolivia’s former president, Evo Morales, who heads the Bolivian observer team.

Maduro, on Twitter, thanked the foreign delegations who had come to the country to monitor the election process. “I am very grateful for the trouble you have gone to in order to monitor the crucial elections,” he was quoted as saying.  

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