Zelaya's restitution will be decided only after Elections
The decision will be made after the Congress receives the reports of four institutions.
The Honduran Congress will meet on Dec. 2 to decide on a possible return of ousted President Manuel Zelaya, said Monday the chairman of the legislature, Jose Alfredo Saavedra.
The deputy said the decision will be made after the Congress next week to receive the opinions of four institutions in the country as envisaged in the agreement signed on 29 October by dialogue commissions Zelaya and interim President Roberto Micheletti.
"We have decided to convene the next session for Dec. 2 to play accordance with paragraph 5 of Tegucigalpa-San Jose," Saavedra told the local media
This fifth point concerns the possibility that Congress will vote on the return of Zelaya, after receiving the opinion of the Supreme Court, the Public Ministry, the National Commissioner for Human Rights and the Attorney General's Office.
"We have received the report of the National Commissioner for Human Rights (last week) and today the Attorney General of the Republic, and have been officially informed that next week the report will be delivered both prosecutors and the Supreme Court, "said Saavedra.
"Barbaric"
Following the news, Zelaya told EFE that "is an outrage" that the U.S. Congress will decide on its return three days after the holding of general elections on 29 November.
Zelaya said that "it is an outrage" that Congress decides on its return after the elections.
In a recent interview with BBC World, Zelaya called these elections "illegitimate" and "shameful" and called for that are not recognized by the international community.
On Saturday, deposed president said in a letter to U.S. president Barack Obama, the agreement of Tegucigalpa-San Jose is dead and will not accept another deal to restore it in the power that serves to "cover up the coup" which was the subject of his government on 28 June.
Zelaya Initially supported the agreement reached in late October under the auspices of the U.S., with which it seemed he would return to power before the elections. Finally, disagreements with the interim authorities around the formation of a unity government made the pact failed.
In recent days Zelaya has accused the White House to strengthen the regime's de facto Micheletti to have said that they will recognize the results of the elections on November 29.
Despite the accusations against Washington, is scheduled to meet the deposed president at the Brazilian Embassy in Tegucigalpa, where he is a refugee from late September, U.S. Deputy Assistant Secretary for Latin America, Craig Kelly, who traveled to Honduras for the second time in a week.
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