Micheletti to briefly step down for Honduras elections

Micheletti hopes the polls will put an end to a political crisis set off by the June 28 ouster of President Manuel Zelaya, which has isolated the Central American nation.

Micheletti said he expected to be absent from public functions from November 25 to December 2, in an address on national media.

“With this measure I aim to concentrate all the attention of Honduran people on the electoral process and not on the political crisis,” Micheletti said.

Zelaya, in comments to Venezuela's Telesur TV channel, immediately rejected the move as a “crude maneuver” that implicitly recognizes that Michelettis presence in office “stains the electoral process.”

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