POLITICAL tensions over Venezuela's disputed presidential election have boiled over in the National Assembly as government and opposition MPs said they physically clashed.
Several MPs were left bloodied and bruised, with both opposition and pro-government politicians accusing each other of starting the fight.
"I'm not the only one who has been beaten. They have struck several MPs. (Assembly speaker) Diosdado Cabello has to be held to account personally," said opposition politician Julio Borges.
Borges said he was denied the right to speak in the assembly by the body, which is controlled by a majority loyal to socialist President Nicolas Maduro, because opposition MPs have not recognised Maduro's re-election.
So the ruling party majority voted to deny opposition MPs their right to speak in the forum to which they were elected, Borges said.
A combative Cabello told the opposition legislators that "as long as (national) authorities are not recognised and the republic's institutions are not recognised ... the ladies and gentlemen of the opposition can go talk to (TV network) Globovision, to (newspaper) El Nacional.
"But they won't be doing it here" in the assembly, Cabello said.
Authorities on Monday began a partial audit of the disputed election won by Maduro, the late Hugo Chavez's handpicked successor, as the opposition rejected the move as insufficient.
Opposition leader Henrique Capriles, who says he was the real winner of the April 14 presidential vote, has accused election officials of rejecting his appeal for a full recount on the orders of the ruling Socialist Party.
The National Electoral Board has ruled that Maduro won by 1.49 per cent of the vote, amending an earlier tally that had Maduro up by 1.8 per cent.
The Board has insisted it is legally impossible to carry out a full recount, and that no audit can reverse Maduro's win.
The 40-year-old Capriles has said he will not accept anything short of a full recount.
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