Editing Nicolás Maduro (section)

===Constitutional crisis===
On January 11, 2016, when the National Assembly proceeded to place three legitimately elected deputies, the Supreme Court declared the National Assembly in contempt, voiding all subsequent legislation passed by this democratically elected body. Since then, Maduro has deliberately marginalized this constitutionally legitimate Assembly.
Maduro's accomplices in the National Electoral Council (CNE) supervised the conduct of all elections and declared the winners. Since 2015, they have included the scale to help Maduro not lose. All major opposition parties and most opposition candidates have been disqualified since 2017.
In 2017, following Maduro's orders, the CNE organized a contested election for the National Constituent Assembly, whose main objective was to draft a new Constitution. Instead, Maduro used the Assembly to usurp the powers of the legitimate National Assembly, ratify their orders and enact laws, many of which vilify and discredit opposition figures and their political proposals.
This false electoral system culminated in the presidential elections of May 20, 2018. With most of the opposition figures arrested, exiled or with the prohibition of running for elections, Maduro faced a field of weakened candidates in a rigged election. To boost pro-Maduro participation, the regime bribed controls with food and other subsidies that desperately needed a change in their votes.
On January 10, 2019, Maduro illegally assumed the presidency in an illegitimate ceremony by many Venezuelans and more than 50 countries, including most of Venezuela's neighbors and the majority of the European Union.
In this context, Juan Guaidó, elected on January 5, 2019, as President of the National Assembly, the only legitimate and democratically elected institution remaining in the country, invoked relevant articles of the Venezuelan constitution and will be seen as Interim President of Venezuela.
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