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De facto leader says there was no coup in Honduras
Mon Jul 27, 2009 1:07pm EDT
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TEGUCIGALPA (Reuters) - Honduras' de facto leader tried to persuade world leaders on Monday that he was not brought to power by a coup amid signs that U.S. backing for ousted President Manuel Zelaya may be waning.
The international response to the June 28 ouster of the leftist Zelaya has been one of almost unanimous condemnation, and the demands that he be returned to power baffles the de facto government and its supporters.
Seeking to shift the balance of world opinion and perhaps avert harsher U.S. sanctions, interim President Roberto Micheletti wrote an article in the Wall Street Journal on Monday arguing Zelaya's removal was legal and was not a coup.
"The truth is that he was removed by a democratically elected civilian government because the independent judicial and legislative branches of our government found that he had violated our laws and constitution," said Micheletti, chosen by Congress to lead the country hours after Zelaya was ousted.
The deposed president is in exile in neighboring Nicaragua and took a few steps on Honduran soil at the border on Friday, a gesture criticized by the U.S. government as "reckless".
Zelaya has asked President Barack Obama to impose more aggressive sanctions against Micheletti's government, but he also says he plans to return even without a negotiated deal.
"International diplomacy has its limits. It works up to a certain point. We Hondurans are going to resolve the problems of Honduras," he told reporters in the town of Ocotal, in northern Nicaragua.
His supporters in the capital Tegucigalpa said they planned "acts of resistance" on Monday when Congress is due to examine and debate a proposal for a negotiated solution to the crisis.
Congress is unlikely to support the plan as is, since it includes Zelaya's return as president.
The United States and Latin American governments have demanded Zelaya be returned to power and Obama has cut $16.5 million in military aid to Honduras, but Zelaya says Washington is not doing enough to condemn those responsible for the coup.
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Micheletti said in the Wall Street Journal editorial that Zelaya had violated the constitution in seeking to hold an unofficial "referendum" on extending presidential term limits.
"The constitution expressly states in Article 239 that any president who seeks to amend the constitution and extend his term is automatically disqualified and is no longer president," Micheletti wrote in the article, rejecting the term "coup."
Zelaya was seized from his home before dawn by soldiers and later put on a plane and flown out of the country. The Supreme Court ordered his arrest and Congress backed his removal, appointing Micheletti as president.
Micheletti said he understood criticism of the abrupt way that Zelaya was ousted. Continued...
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