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Posted on 11/01/2009 12:20:32 AM PDT by ErnstStavroBlofeld
Lawmakers will wait until Tuesday to consider a U.S.-brokered agreement that could return deposed President Manuel Zelaya to power, despite diplomats' pleas to not delay an end to the country's 4-month-old political crisis.
Monday is a holiday in Honduras, and many legislators are busy campaigning for Nov. 29 elections that will also elect a successor to Zelaya.
Nonetheless, Zelaya said Saturday that he hopes he will be back in office by Thursday, the deadline for the two sides to establish a power-sharing government.
"By Thursday, the government of national unity should be installed," he said in a meeting broadcast by Radio Globo. "By that day, point No. 5 has to be resolved," he added, referring to the clause of the agreement that covers his return to office.
In fact, the accord does not establish a firm deadline by which Congress has to make a final decision on Zelaya's reinstatement, Organization of American States Political Affairs Secretary Victor Rico noted following Zelaya's comments.
"There is no timeframe for Zelaya to return to office," he said. "Only Congress can make that determination."
Diplomats have urged lawmakers not to delay; if Congress approves the pact, a unity government including members of the major parties will be installed and the country will win international recognition for the elections. Many countries have warned they would not accept the elections' results if the June coup is not reversed.
Ramon Velasquez, the congressional secretary who is in charge of handling submitted measures said Saturday that consideration of the deal "will not be until Tuesday, because I'm in full swing campaigning for my re-election to Congress."
Legislators also suggested it would take time to debate.
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You have to laugh over the entire deal. Basically, Zelaya gets his job back and the senate will give him one brief review of the idea of letting the Constitution change its rule of one term presidents. Here’s the great deal of this issue...the Constitution of Honduras says you can only change it...if you vote once on some feature, and then meet 365 days later to vote again. So no matter what they say on this first vote....Zelaya is gone by mid-December because of the scheduled national vote.
He can’t win....he can only retire as President by mid-December.
As you watch the NPR and CNN experts...none of them have grasped this entire deal. They all suggests that he might get another term, which is practically impossible.
Micheletti is the government of national unity. He and the congress and the Supreme Court that placed him in office.
I would sure like to hear Cankles or some State Dept. hack explain what it will accomplish to put Mad Mel back in the presidency for two months. I know what those Marxists really want but I would like to hear them explain it to all Americans and Hondurans.
Presidential term limits in Honduras cannot be changed by any vote of any body. That is one of about three provisions that can’t ever be changed in any way by any means according to the Honduran constitution.
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Didn't seem to stop Mel's buddy Ortega. Hey, what's a constitution but a piece of paper to the left. Give it life. Make it a living document. Shred it of all meaning.
The constitution didn't stop Mel's buddy, Hugo and it doesn't seem to be stopping Hugo's buddy, Barack.
If done right, this is ingenious as a way to PUNK OBAMA, THE UN, AND THE DIPLOMATS. Place all the focus back on the Honduran congress and Supreme Court one more. If they rule NO, then it will be hard for the idiots to keep up the coup nonsense talk.
How about the day before the new election?
Its a possibility.
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