Maduro proposes early polls as possible solution to crisis

President asks the opposition to 'stop calling for military intervention'

CARACAS - Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro proposed on Saturday holding early elections for the National Assembly as a possible solution to the country's political crisis.

Maduro said before thousands of supporters who had gathered on Bolivar Avenue in Caracas that the government-controlled Constituent National Assembly would decide whether or not to call early elections for the opposition-held National Assembly.