TeleSUR 28/06/09.- President of the Congress of Honduras, Roberto Micheletti, was sworn in by parliament as president of the Central American country, replacing the ousted, Manuel Zelaya, who was kidnapped in the early morning hours Sunday and taken by force to Costa Rica, where even remains.
Earlier, Parliament had passed a decree which precluded a Zeleya despite having been elected through popular vote.
The teleSUR collaborating in Honduras, Regina Osorio, confirmed the appointment of Micheletti in the presidency and the ratification of Legislative Decree with force of law, in which Manuel Zelaya is disabled.
"Lawmakers have just ratified the decree law that removed the Manuel Zelaya," reported Osorio, who described the capital, Tegucigalpa, is completely taken over by the military, especially the Congress, where dozens of people and members social organizations have opted to demand the return of constitutional order and accused MPs of "hijacking" and "violators of the Constitution."
In a brief speech, Micheletti promised that in the six months to occupy the presidency, according to the decree will be until January 27, 2010, will be "a government of national reconciliation and dialogue, and acting" as mandated by the Constitution. "
This will consume the coup that had been anticipated days ago by Zelaya, who defined it as a "technical coup" after the contempt of his Chief of Staff, Romeo Vasquez, who was forced to dismiss for disobedience the order of distributing electoral material to a non-binding referendum to challenge the people wanted that in the general election next November 29 will install a fourth ballot, in which a vote on a Constitutional Assembly.
This survey, supported by the signatures of more than 400 thousand people, was not intended, as filtering media, to amend the Constitution to allow for re-election of Zelaya, who would not participate as a candidate in the electoral process coming November.
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