Venezuela election board okays opposition recall push first phase

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But council head Tibisay Lucena asked for a judicial probe into allegations of some voter identity fraud - a major complaint of the government - and did not name a date for the next phase, which would be to collect 20 percent of signatures.

(Reporting by Girish Gupta and Daniel Kai; Writing by Andrew Cawthorne; Editing by Sandra Maler)