(CNN) -- Four months after he was escorted in his pajamas onto a military plane and flown out of the country, ousted Honduran President Jose Manuel Zelaya could return to power within days, analysts said Friday.



Negotiators for Zelaya and Roberto Micheletti, the politician who was appointed president hours after Zelaya's June 28 removal, reached an agreement late Thursday to form a government of national reconciliation. The nation's congress, in consultation with the supreme court, must approve Zelaya's return to power.



The reconciliation government would rule until a new president, to be chosen in November 29 elections, takes office in January.



Micheletti announced the agreement in a televised speech to the nation Thursday night.



Zelaya said Friday his return to the presidency is "imminent" and should occur within days. He has been staying at the Brazilian Embassy in Tegucigalpa, the Honduran capital, since secretly returning to the country September 21.



"At this moment we are trying to reach a consensus so we can reconstruct democracy," he told CNN en Español on Friday.



Although Zelaya's return to the presidency is not guaranteed in the eight-point pact, several analysts say they expect the congress will approve the measure.



"If Micheletti came forward with a public announcement, the odds of this being approved by congress are pretty good. It's a done deal," said Kevin Casas-Zamora, a senior foreign policy fellow at the non-partisan Brookings Institution and a former vice president of Costa Rica. "It would be a horrible letdown if congress did not approve the agreement."



Peter Hakim, president of the Inter-American Dialogue policy institute, also believes "they'll go ahead and vote for it."



Said Larry Birns, director of the liberal Council on Hemispheric Affairs: "There seems to be no other way."



The United States played a key role in the accord after weeks of stalemate. Thomas Shannon, assistant secretary of state for Western Hemisphere affairs, and two other high-level U.S. officials arrived Wednesday and met separately with Zelaya and Micheletti. An agreement appeared possible Thursday when Shannon announced at a news conference that the U.S. delegation would stay another day.



A delegation from the Organization of American States had visited Honduras in early October but failed to obtain an agreement. Costa Rican President Oscar Arias had held consultations with both sides but did not get them to agree on a solution.



The OAS, the United Nations, the European Union and the United States condemned the military-backed coup and demanded that Zelaya be reinstated. The United States and others imposed economic sanctions, which some analysts say have started to hurt Honduras.



"The dark secret here is that the Honduran economy has been devastated," Birns said. "Huge numbers of Hondurans have crossed over into Mexico and are desperate for jobs."



Crumbling economic conditions left Micheletti little choice, Birns said.



"All along Micheletti was holding a diminishing deck," he said. "Not only the poor were being hurt. The cutoffs were hurting the nation's economic elite. So there was a very strong economic motive to reach a solution."



There also was a strong political motive, Hakim said.



"The candidates for president, the people looking forward, wanted to see the elections on November 29 as being legitimate," he said.



Birns agreed that "the candidates wanted a resolution because of legitimacy."



The United States and many other nations had said the elections would be considered illegitimate if held under Micheletti's rule.



"By far, the most important thing right now is not whether Zelaya will be reinstated, but that the U.S. is going to recognize the elections," said Heather Berkman, a Latin America analyst with the Eurasia Group consulting firm.



"The next president will be able to receive diplomatic recognition and much-needed access to international aid and financing, which will be crucial given the weakness of the economy and the fact that the government is running out of money," she said.



Zelaya also appeared to have little choice but to accept the pact,
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