Juan Jose Orlando Hernández Alvarado, often known as JOH (born 28 October 1968), is the current president of Honduras, who assumed office on January 27, 2014, after winning the 2013 Honduran general election.
He began his controversial second presidential term on January 27, 2018.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 announced that he would seek re-election in 2017, after the Supreme Court made it allowed in April 2015.
On December 15, 2016, the Supreme Electoral Tribunal decided, by two votes to one, to allow Hernández to stand in the primary elections 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 general election on November 26, 2017.
In the elections, Hernández was declared the winner by a narrow margin (0.5%), after a reelection campaign widely criticized as fraudulent, but the United States swiftly recognized Hernández as the official winner.