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Article: HONDURAS' NEW PRESIDENT PROMISES SYSTEMIC CHANGE; OUTGOING PRESIDENT ALSO FACES SWEEPING CHANGE.
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- NotiCen: Central American & Caribbean Affairs
- Article date:
- February 2, 2006
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Manuel Zelaya Rosales was sworn in Jan. 27 as president of Honduras. He is known popularly as Mel, is 53 years old, and is the pick of the former opposition Partido Liberal (PL). He does not have a majority in the 128-seat Congress, but the PL's Roberto Micheletti was elected Jan. 25 as that body's president, so Zelaya will not be facing a hostile legislature. The PL won 62 seats in the election, the outgoing ruling party, the Partido Nacional, 52. Dealmaking with lesser parties left the two major parties evenly divided. The negotiations were tense, with potential success or failure of Zelaya's term riding on the outcome.
Zelaya was saved by a change of ...