Venezuela's presidential election has been moved back a month. The government had originally scheduled it for April; but on Thursday the National Electoral Council announced it's holding off until May 20.
Even that puts the election more than six months ahead of when government opponents say it was legally supposed to be held. That's a big reason almost all of Venezuela's opposition is boycotting the vote. They say it's being rigged by President Nicolas Maduro and his authoritarian socialist regime to make sure he wins another six-year term.
Oil-rich Venezuela is mired in the world's worst economic collapse today, and Maduro's approval rating sits at about 30 percent.
In response to those critics, Maduro's government says one reason it's setting the later date is to give the U.N. a chance to form a commission to observe the election.
