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Opposition Party To Form Interim Government
In Honduras
TEGUCIGALPA -
A government led by the opposition party Unidad Nacional
party in Honduras will replace de facto
leader Roberto Micheletti by November 5,
under the agreement signed by Michelletti
and ousted president, Manuel Zelaya and
bring peace to the politically divided
Central American country.
The surprise agreement between the two sides
calls for the Honduranb Congress to decide
if Zelaya will be reinstate to power to end
his term in January. The agreement also
calls for neither Zelaya, nor Micheletti are
allowed to run for the November elections.'
The deal was reached last Thursday and
ratified on Friday by boths sides after a
visit by US Assistant Secretary of State for
Western Hemisphere Affairs, Robert Shannon.
It is not known exactly what Shannon told
the two sides to make them call off the four
month standoff, since Zelaya was overthrown
on June 28 and sent to Costa Rica to begin
his trek across Latin America and the United
States seeking support for his return.
Only at the beginning of last week an
agreement was far in sight, as both sides
would not agree on the most important point,
the return of Zelaya, while encompassing
most of the points proposed by Costa Rican
president, Oscar Arias, in July when he was
called upon by US Secretary of State, Hilary
Clinton, to mediate peace.
Arias, a Nobel Peace Prize winner, tried to
bring both sides to the table, but failed in
his attempts where Micheletti would not
yield t to Zelaya returning to power as one
of the conditions.
The Honduran Congress is made of 128
legislators, 62 of which belong tothe
Partido Liberal, the Micheletti and Zelaya
party, of which 21 support Micheletti; 55
are of the Partido Nacional, and the
remaining 11 are from various small
political parties.
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