Honduras · Government
Government and administration in Honduras
How the executive, legislature and administrative state are organised, and which body is responsible for what.
The three branches
- Executive — President and three designates
- Four-year term.
- Legislative — National Congress
- 128 deputies elected for four years by department.
- Judicial — Corte Suprema de Justicia
- Elected by a two-thirds vote of Congress from a nominating board's list.
- Oversight — Comisionado Nacional de los Derechos Humanos
- Ombudsman elected by Congress.
How legislation is made
Bills are debated and approved article by article in Congress. The President may veto within ten days; Congress overrides with two-thirds. Constitutional amendments require two-thirds in two consecutive ordinary sessions, and cannot touch the entrenched articles.
Enforcement institutions
- Ministerio Público
- Fiscal General elected by Congress for five years.
- Policía Nacional
- Civilian police; a military police force created in 2013 operates alongside it.
- Instituto Nacional de Migración
- Migration control and the return of Honduran nationals.
Government bodies and regulators
- judicialCorte Suprema de JusticiaHighest court with a constitutional chamber.
- executiveMinisterio PúblicoProsecution service headed by the Fiscal General.
- legislativeCongreso NacionalUnicameral legislature of 128 deputies.
- independentComisionado Nacional de los Derechos HumanosNational human rights commissioner.
- independentConsejo Nacional ElectoralOrganises elections under the 2019 reform.
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