Fri, November 20, 2009
TEGUCIGALPA, Nov. 19 (Xinhua) -- Honduran ousted President Manuel Zelaya proposed on Thursday to postpone the Nov. 29 elections, till the power of the state is restored to the situation before the June 28 coup.
The Honduran Congress earlier this week summoned the deputies to meet on Dec. 2, three days after the elections, to decide whether Zelaya would be restored to the presidency.
Zelaya said, "to summon ordinary general elections in a de facto State, without previously restoring democracy and establishing a government of unity and reconciliation, is a juridical aberration, a mock and cheat of the people."
Zelaya said it is urgent to give legal solutions to the crisis, "to postpone the elections must be a condition to make them legal, to give us back the state of law under the constitutional order ... otherwise the elections will be held again till the will of the people is restored."
Zelaya also said he would legally compete in the upcoming presidential poll, even though he is barred from the elections.
He said he would contest them legally and not support the elections, which were not a solution to the coup because their outcome would be valueless for forming a state of law.
Zelaya was forced out of his country in a June 28 coup against him, which was condemned by the international community, and he has been staying in the Brazilian embassy in Honduran capital Tegucigalpa since late September.
