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Caribbean & Central America - February 2009 (ISSN 1741-4458)

HONDURAS: Coup rumours surround supreme court appointments

Rumours that President Manuel Zelaya was plotting an institutional coup added piquancy to the prosaic task that falls on congress to elect 15 magistrates to serve on the supreme court. On 25 January, the opposition Partido Nacional (PN), and a number of deputies from the ruling Partido Liberal (PL), claimed that Zelaya sent a delegation to congress to coerce deputies to re-elect the wife of his minister of the presidency to the court. The implicit threat, they claim, was that Zelaya would stage an autogolpe if they refused. In the end they did and he did not, but several deputies are demanding that the attorney general's office investigate the episode.

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