Maduro rejects ultimatum on fresh elections in Venezuela

Crisis-hit country’s president under pressure as US urges the world to ‘pick a side’

Venezuela’s embattled president, Nicolás Maduro, has rejected an international ultimatum to call elections within eight days, and said opposition leader Juan Guaidó had violated the country’s constitution by declaring himself leader.

In an interview with CNN Türk aired on Sunday, Maduro also said he was open to dialogue and that meeting the US president, Donald Trump, was improbable but not impossible. The broadcaster dubbed the interview from Spanish into Turkish.

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