24/07/2017 (Agence Europe) – In initiating the convening of a constituent assembly to craft a new constitution, the president of Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro, is in “flagrant violation of the principle of equality of votes”, stated the constitutional law experts on the Council of Europe’s Venice Committee on Friday 21 July (see EUROPE 11831). Asked for an opinion by the Organisation of American States (OES), the Venice Committee says that the plans could “undermine (the country’s)...