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In 2013 Maduro ran for president of Venezuela, at this time he was at his weakest, he assumed the presidency just because Hugo Chavez died, at the time Venezuela's electoral system was fair, or at the very least way less prone to rigging than the current elections, elections were montired by a British company and Chavez was very strict regarding fair elections as he had never needed to rig an election and he mantained his international legitimacy solely on the claim that he won free and fair elections. This was demonstrated when the Venezuelan opposition actually won on the Parliamentary elections:
So let's suppose that the crisis speeds up a few months earlier or something else happen and the opposition manages to get those few votes needed to win and Maduro lost the election. What would happen?