FILE PHOTO: Deputies of the National Assembly attend a session in Caracas, Venezuela, July 18, 2017. REUTERS/Carlos Garcia Rawlins
CARACAS (Reuters) - Venezuela's opposition-led congress said on Friday it will appoint 13 alternative judges to the country's Supreme Court, whose current pro-government members have been a bedrock of support for leftist President Nicolas Maduro.
While widely seen as symbolic, the move raises the spectre of the development of a parallel state. The top court has warned that the naming of the alternate judges is illegal, and they could be jailed.
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