CARACAS: Venezuela’s opposition is set to announce its plan Thursday to oust President Nicolas Maduro in the face of a Supreme Court that has hamstrung the powers of its legislative majority.

Tension in the recession-racked oil giant has reached the boiling point since the opposition won control of the National Assembly in December, dealing a severe blow to the socialist “revolution” launched by Maduro’s late mentor Hugo Chavez in 1999.

Since then, the Supreme Court has repeatedly stymied the opposition Democratic Unity Roundtable (MUD), which has vowed to use its landslide election win to force Maduro from power before his term ends in 2019.

MUD is due to unveil just how it plans to accomplish that goal using constitutional means, after mass protests in 2014 swept the country and left 43 people dead but failed to dislodge Maduro.

The two most obvious options, a recall referendum or a constitutional amendment reducing the presidential term from six years to four, face likely rejection by the Supreme Court or the National Electoral Council, both of which the opposition accuses Maduro of packing with allies.

The opposition has been locked in a power struggle with the high court since winning a landslide victory in legislative elections on Dec. 6.

The court first reduced MUD’s powerful two-thirds majority, ruling that three of its lawmakers could not take their seats because of a pending case over alleged electoral fraud.

Then on Tuesday the court stripped the legislature’s power to remove justices from the bench, voiding MUD’s bid to review the recent appointment of 34 Supreme Court judges, passed by the previous legislature in an 11th-hour session on the eve of the opposition takeover.