Juan Orlando Hernández

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Juan Orlando Hernández (2015)

Juan Orlando Hernández (born October 28, 1968 in Gracias , Lempira ) is a Honduran lawyer and politician of the Partido Nacional de Honduras . He has been President of Honduras since January 2014 .

Life

Hernández studied law at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de Honduras . From January 25, 2010 to June 13, 2013 he was the successor of José Alfredo Saavedra, Speaker of the Parliament of the National Congress of Honduras ; he was followed by Mauricio Oliva as President of Parliament . As the successor to Porfirio Lobo Sosa , Hernández has been President of Honduras since January 2014, after he won the election in November 2013 against Xiomara Castro from the Partido Libertad y Refundación .

Hernández ran again for the presidential election in Honduras in 2017 , although the constitution expressly prohibited re-election. At Hernandez's instigation, the Supreme Court had declared the constitutional article "inapplicable". Hernández won this election after his challenger Salvador Nasralla was still in the lead when evaluating the votes immediately after the election . Delays in the counting and allegations of manipulation then repeatedly led to unrest and protests, whereupon the government imposed nightly curfews. On December 17, 2017, the Supreme Electoral Court declared Hernández the winner with almost 43 percent of the vote, while Nasralla is said to have achieved around 41.5 percent. The opposition did not recognize the result, although part of the ballot papers had already been re-counted without the result having changed.

Hernández is married. In 2015 he was made an honorary citizen of the South Korean city of Busan . The President's brother, Juan Antonio Hernández Alvarado, was arrested in the United States on November 23, 2018 on suspicion of large-scale drug trafficking. In June 2020, Hernández announced that he and his wife tested positive for COVID-19 during the COVID-19 pandemic in Honduras .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Amerika21.de: After the elections in Honduras: Protests despite curfews
  2. ^ " Electoral authority declares Hernández the winner of the presidential election in Honduras ". Neue Zürcher Zeitung, December 18, 2017.
  3. ^ Brother of the President of Honduras in US custody, NZZ, November 28, 2018, p. 2
  4. ↑ Honduras, un país donde manda la coca desde la silla presidencial. ¿Cuántas personas habían muerto por mano del cartel Hernandez? , elmensajero, June 30, 2019
  5. ↑ Colin Dwyer: President Of Honduras Tests Positive For Coronavirus, Vows To 'Beat This Pandemic' , NPR, June 17, 2020.
predecessor Office successor
Porfirio Lobo Sosa President of Honduras
since January 27, 2014 		-
personal data
SURNAME Hernández, Juan Orlando
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Honduran politician
DATE OF BIRTH October 28, 1968
PLACE OF BIRTH Gracias , Lempira Department