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Weekly Report - 09 January 2014 (WR-14-01)
HONDURAS: Zelaya finds an early cause
Manuel Zelaya, the ousted former president (2006-2009) and newly-elected legislator, has called on the Honduran Left to turn out in force on 16 January, and again on 27 January, when President-elect Juan Orlando Hernández will be sworn in, to protest against the ‘paquetazo’ approved by the outgoing congress just before Christmas. Zelaya and his new Libre party are not the only opponents of the adjustment package; his former party, the traditional Partido Liberal (PL), has also come out strongly against it, with the PL’s defeated 2013 presidential candidate Mauricio Villeda declaring that the PL would stand with Libre in congress against the fiscal reform. The political backlash against the package is such that Hernández looks set to face governability problems from the outset. Well aware of this, the outgoing congress in its final weeks has also raced through a string of other controversial measures, including the removal of some 18 judges and the institutionalisation of a new military police force.
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