President of Honduras
The President of Honduras () officially known as the President of the Republic of Honduras (Spanish: "Presidente de la República de Honduras"), is the head of state and head of government of Honduras, and the Commander-in-chief of the Armed Forces. According to the 1982 Constitution of Honduras, the Government of Honduras consists of three branches: Executive, Legislative and Judicial. The President is the head of the Executive branch, their primary duty being to "Execute and enforce the Constitution, treaties and conventions, laws and other legal dispositions." The President is directly elected for a four year term.
Juan Orlando Hernández
He is a member of the conservative National Party of Honduras. Hernández 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 had stated that he would seek re-election in 2017, despite the constitution only allowing a single term as president. On December 15, 2016, the Supreme Electoral Tribunal 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, despite arguments that such a decision was illegal. On March 12, 2017, he won the National Party's primary vote to allow him to represent his party during the 2017 Honduran presidential election on November 26, 2017. Hernández was declared the winner by a narrow margin on December 16, after a reelection campaign widely criticized as fraudulent.