Venezuela’s President Nicolas Maduro defended his government’s legitimacy Sunday as his bid for a second six-year term has come under growing fire internationally and by the country’s opposition-controlled National Assembly. “I have decided to leave Venezuela … to disavow the government of Nicolas Maduro,” Christian Zerpa, who sat on a panel that deals with electoral issues, told EVTV Miami. “It was not a free election, it was not a competitive election,” he said of last year’s vote, going on to accuse Maduro of manipulating the court.
