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Venezuelans head to polls for legislative election: "It's a civic duty"

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Polls opened on Sunday morning and Venezuelans began voting for a new congress in an election the opposition is boycotting and most Western nations are calling a fraud.

Voters could be seen at polling stations throughout Caracas, in what local resident Virgilio Fonseca called "a civic duty" independent of politics.

The vote is almost certain to return congress to Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro's allies.

The election closes a cycle that began in 2015 when the opposition celebrated winning congress by a landslide, only to see their legislative powers swept aside by pro-government courts and the 2017 creation of the National Constituent Assembly.

Opposition leader Juan Guaido, head of the current congress, is calling on Venezuelans to skip the vote and participate in a Dec. 12 consultation that will ask citizens if they reject Sunday's vote and want a change of government.

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