CARACAS Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado has called for a boycott of 2025 parliamentary elections after last year's presidential vote widely considered to have been stolen by Nicolas Maduro . Much of the international community disputes Maduro's claim to victory in July 28 elections the opposition says it can prove were won by its candidate Edmundo Gonzalez Urrutia. "Going to vote again and again without respecting the results is not defending the [right to] vote, it is