Juan Orlando Hernández
| Juan Orlando Hernández | |
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Hernández, 2015.
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| 55th President of Honduras | |
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Assumed office 27 January 2014 |
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| Vice President | Ricardo Álvarez |
| Preceded by | Porfirio Lobo Sosa |
| President of the National Congress | |
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In office 27 January 2010 – 13 June 2013 |
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| Preceded by | José Alfredo Saavedra (Acting) |
| Succeeded by | Mauricio Oliva |
| Personal details | |
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Juan Orlando Hernández Alvarado 28 October 1968 Gracias, Honduras |
| Political party | National Party |
| Spouse(s) | Ana García |
| Alma mater |
National Autonomous University of Honduras State University of New York, Albany |
| Religion | Roman Catholicism |
| Website | Official website |
Juan Orlando Hernández Alvarado, often written as JOH, (born October 28, 1968) is the fifty-fifth and current President of Honduras, assuming office January 27, 2014. He is a politician, member of the conservative National Party of Honduras, and former businessman who won the 2013 Honduran presidential election. He was the President of the National Congress of Honduras between January 2010 and June 2013 when he was given permission by the Congress to absent himself from all responsibilities in the Congress to dedicate himself to his presidential campaign. He has stated that he will seek re-election in 2017 in spite of the constitution only allowing a single-term as president. On December 15, 2016 the Tribunal Supremo Electoral decided, by two votes to one, to allow Hernández to stand in the pre-candidacy internal vote by the National Party of Honduras on March 12, 2017.
The parents of Juan Orlando Hernández are Juan Hernández Villanueva and Elvira Alvarado Castillo, and he is the 15th of their 17 children. His siblings include Hilda Hernández and Juan Antonio Hernández, known as Tony and currently a deputy in the National Congress. A lawyer and notary, he graduated from the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de Honduras in social and legal sciences and studied legislation, and was President of the Association of Students 1988-1989. He has a master's degree in public administration from the State University of New York. He was a businessman in coffee cultivation in his native Gracias and in the radio and television industries as well as being an owner of hotels. He gained notoriety in Honduras when Liberal leader Rafael Pineda Ponce described him as a “cipote malcriado” (poorly raised kid).
Juan Orlando Hernández, who represented Lempira Department since 2001, was elected head of a National Congress where the National Party had a comfortable majority, on January 21, 2010, and took office four days later.
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