Honduran de facto leader to form government without Zelaya

TEGUCIGALPA (Reuters) - Honduran de facto leader Roberto Micheletti said on Thursday night he would install a national unity government without the participation of ousted President Manuel Zelaya.

The rival leaders had agreed last week to end a four-month political crisis and form a so-called unity and reconciliation cabinet by Thursday, but they then disagreed who would lead the cabinet.

Zelaya declined to name any members to the cabinet, but Micheletti said he was going ahead without them.

"We've finalized the process of confirming a unity government ... It represents a wide spectrum despite the fact that Mr. Zelaya did not send a list of representatives," Micheletti said in a televised speech to Hondurans.

The impoverished coffee and textile-exporting country has been isolated diplomatically and cut off from international aid since Zelaya was toppled in a June 28 coup that set off Central America's worst political crisis in two decades.

Earlier on Thursday, Zelaya said the pact was at risk of failing unless Congress held a special session immediately to restore him to power.

(Reporting by Fiona Ortiz, editing by Anthony Boadle)