CARACAS—Lines were short at polling places across Venezuela during parliamentary elections held on Sunday, where opposition leaders called on a populace frustrated by years of economic crisis to boycott a vote they deemed a fraud by regime leader Nicolas Maduro.
The vote is almost certain to return congress from opposition leader and interim president Juan Guaidó to Maduro’s allies despite an economy in ruins, aggressive U.S. sanctions on the regime’s oil exports, and the migration of some 5 million citizens. Congress is the nation’s last institution not controlled by Maduro’s Socialist Party.
