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Weekly Report - 19 November 2009 (WR-09-46)

HONDURAS: Congress pushes vote on Zelaya beyond elections

The president of congress, Alfredo Saavedra, announced this week that the full congress would convene for a special session on 2 December to discuss the possible restitution of the ousted president, Manuel Zelaya. This would allow time for the supreme court, he said, to offer its “opinion" on the issue in keeping with the Tegucigalpa Accord. It also happens to be three days after the presidential, congressional and municipal elections. This means the international community faces the quandary of whether to recognise the next president. The US, Colombia and Panama have agreed to recognise the legitimacy of the elections regardless of whether Zelaya is restored to power beforehand, but Argentina and Brazil refused to follow suit this week.

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