2009 Honduran constitutional crisis

The 2009 Honduran constitutional crisis[25] is an ongoing constitutional crisis. President Manuel Zelaya had attempted to hold a "non-binding referendum" on the 28th of June on the desire of Hondurans to have a fourth ballot box in the upcoming November elections, which would then ask if the Honduran people wished to form a Constitutional Assembly in the term of the newly elected president.[26] The Supreme Court upheld a lower court ruling that had found a prior referendum based on the same issue unconstitutional and had prohibited it. The Supreme Court had not made any determination of the final, referendum, having instead made the legal claim that any attempt by Zelaya to poll on any matter, in any way, would be illegal[citation needed].

Zelaya decided to proceed on the referendum, basing his decision on the Law of Citizen Participation, passed in 2006. Zelaya illegally dismissed the head of the military command, General Romeo Vásquez Velásquez, for disobeying an order to hold the poll, but the Supreme Court ordered his reinstatement. The Supreme Court then ordered the military to detain Zelaya to take his statement. The vote on the referendum was scheduled for 28 June 2009. In the early morning on that day, the army arrested Zelaya at his home in the 2009 Honduran coup d'état.[27]

Zelaya was held in an airbase outside Tegucigalpa[28] before being flown to San José, Costa Rica.[29] Zelaya attempted reentry into the country on several occasions. According to the constitution, it is illegal to expatriate any Honduran citizen.[30] Roberto Micheletti, the former President of the Honduran Congress and a member of the same party as Zelaya, was sworn in as President by the National Congress on the afternoon of Sunday 28 June[31] for a term that ended on 27 January 2010.[32]

At first, no single country in the world recognized the new government as legitimate; all members of the UN condemned the removal of Zelaya as a coup d'état. Some Republican Party members of the U.S. Congress have voiced support for the new government.[33][34] On 21 September 2009, Zelaya returned to Honduras and entered the Brazilian embassy. The government disrupted utility services to the embassy and imposed a curfew in an attempt to maintain order in the area when Zelaya's supporters protested around the embassy.

The following day, in Decree PCM-M-016-2009, it suspended five Constitutional rights: personal liberty (Article 69), freedom of expres​sion(Article 72), freedom of movement (Article 81), habeas corpus (Article 84) and freedom of association and assembly.[35][36] It closed a leftist radio and a television station.[37] The decree suspending human rights was officially revoked on 19 October 2009 in La Gaceta

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