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An injunction against holding the referendum was issued by the Honduran Supreme Court.
Zelaya rejected the ruling and sacked Romeo Vásquez Velásquez, the head of Honduras's armed forces.
Vásquez had refused to help with the referendum because he did not want to violate the law.
The sacking was deemed unlawful by the Supreme Court as well as by the Congress and Vásquez was reinstated.
The President then further defied the Supreme Court by pressing ahead with the vote, which the Court had deemed " illegal ".
The military had confiscated the ballots and polls in a military base in Tegucigalpa.
On June 27, a day before the election, Zelaya followed by a big group of supporters entered the base and ordered, as Commanding Officer of the Armed Forces, for the ballots and polls to be returned to him.
The congress saw this as abuse of power and ordered his capture.
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