The president of Honduras (Spanish: Presidente de 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.
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Eligibility
Qualifications are extremely stringent, designed to prevent a dictatorship by political, military, or business figures. To be eligible to run for president, the candidate is required to:
Be a natural-born Honduran.
Be more than 30 years old at the time of the election.
Enjoy the full rights of Honduran citizenship.
Not be an official of any church or religious denomination.
Not be in active military service during the six months prior to the election.
Not be a presidential appointee, secretary or under-secretary of state, judge, or member of the electoral court, attorney general or deputy attorney, comptroller general or deputy comptroller general, or an executive of a privately held institution for at least six months prior to the election.
Not be an officer of the armed forces or law enforcement or an active soldier therein for at least 12 months prior to the election.
Not be the spouse or relative of the incumbent president, any military leader, or any presidential appointee who has held the presidency also in the year prior to the election.
Powers
The Constitution ascribes 45 specific rights and powers to the office of the presidency:
To execute and enforce the Constitution, treaties and conventions, laws and other legal dispositions.
To direct the general policy of the State and represent it.
To maintain the independence, honor, integrity, and inviolability of Honduras.
To maintain the peace and security of the Republic and repel any attack or foreign aggression.
To freely appoint and remove the secretaries of their cabinet, and other posts whose appointments are not assigned to other officials.
To call the National Congress into special session, or propose an extension of the ordinary session.
To restrict or suspend the exercise of rights of the Council of Ministers, subject to the provisions of this Constitution.
To address the National Congress at any time, and to adjourn each ordinary legislative session.
To participate in the introduction of legislation to Congress by the cabinet secretaries.
To provide implement the resolutions of the legislature, judiciary, and National Electoral Court.
To issue decrees, regulations, and resolutions pursuant to law.
To direct foreign policy.