Venezuelan lawmakers to elect new Assembly chief

CARACAS (Reuters) - Venezuelan lawmakers met on Saturday to elect a leader of the National Assembly, with the victor in line to be caretaker president if Hugo Chavez does not recover from his fourth session of cancer surgery in Cuba.

The incumbent, Diosdado Cabello, is likely to be re-elected by the "Chavista"-dominated legislature, cementing the ex-soldier's position as the third most powerful figure in the government, after Chavez and Vice President Nicolas Maduro.