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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.
PCM-027-2009 was sheltered in article 5 of the "Law of Citizen Participation" and articles 2 and 5 of the Honduran Constitution. Zelaya defined his actions as a non-binding opinion poll, but his political opponents portrayed his actions as a binding referendum aimed at reforming articles in the Honduran Constitution regarding forms of ...
The 2009 Honduran constitutional crisis was a political confrontation concerning the events that led to, included, and followed the 2009 Honduran coup d'état and the political breakdown associated with it. [1]
The Constitution of Honduras gained notoriety because of the 2009 Honduran constitutional crisis that removed President Manuel Zelaya and saw Roberto Micheletti take his place. In 2009 Óscar Arias , then President of Costa Rica , who had been asked by the US State Department to help arbitrate the crisis, termed the Honduran constitution the ...
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 current Political Constitution of the Republic of Honduras was initially approved on 11 January 1982, three years after Honduras returned to civilian rule after many decades of mostly military governments. The provision of the constitution, at issue here, was written to prevent a president from extending his rule beyond one term to prevent ...
Honduras became the third country in the world after the United States and Guatemala to establish embassies to Israel in Jerusalem. [36] In January 2021, Honduras changed the country's constitution to make it almost impossible to legalize abortion in the future. Before that, Honduras was already one of few countries with a complete ban on abortion.
José Manuel Zelaya Rosales (born September 20, 1952) [2] is a Honduran politician who served as the 35th president of Honduras from 2006 until his forcible removal in the 2009 coup d'état, and who since January 2022 serves as the first first gentleman of Honduras since 2022.