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The 2009 Honduran constitutional crisis [1] [2] [3] was a political dispute over plans to hold a popular referendum to either rewrite the Constitution of Honduras or write a new one. Honduran President Manuel Zelaya planned to hold a poll on a referendum on a constituent assembly to change the constitution.
Various analysts disputed the report's findings regarding Honduran constitutional law, in particular the assumption that Congress can interpret the Constitution (which they claim is a privilege reserved to the Supreme Court by a Supreme Court ruling on 7 May 2003), [6] [7] though the later Decree 241-2003 of 20 January 2004, signed by the ...
The new decree called for a "Public Opinion Survey Convening a Constitutional Assembly" and referred to it as "an official activity of the Government of the Republic of Honduras". [ 14 ] According to a legal analysis by former Supreme Court President Vilma Morales, Zelaya automatically ceased being President of Honduras with the publication of ...
The Political Constitution of the Republic of Honduras (Spanish: Constitución Política de la República de Honduras) was approved on 11 January 1982, published on 20 January 1982, [1] amended by the National Congress of Honduras 26 times from 1984 to 2005, [2] and 10 interpretations by Congress were made from 1982 to 2005.
TEGUCIGALPA (Reuters) -The Honduran Supreme Court on Friday declared unconstitutional the legal underpinning of special economic zones exempt from local laws and taxes known as ZEDEs, which have ...
Honduras canceled his governmental credit card, as well as lease of 50 luxury vehicles, 61 mobile phone lines, and 100 bank accounts. [108] Many demonstrations for the constitution, peace, democracy and against Zelaya's attempts to return to power took place in Tegucigalpa, San Pedro Sula, Talanga, La Ceiba, El Progreso, Choluteca, and other ...
The first attempt to create later became known as ZEDEs, the REDs (Regiones Especiales de Desarrollo or Special Development Regions) was struck down as unconstitutional in 2011 by the Supreme Court of Honduras. In September 2013, after amending the law, and after a change of 4 supreme court justices and a constitutional amendment, the law to ...
During the pre-independence period the province of Honduras was governed under the 1808 Constitution of Bayonne.. Constitution of 1812 (Constitution of Cádiz), valid from 1812 to 1814 and from 1820 to 1823