Roberto Micheletti
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Key facts
- Vice president
- Vacant
- Preceded by
- Manuel Zelaya
- Succeeded by
- Porfirio Lobo Sosa
- Born
- Roberto Micheletti Baín , ( 1943-08-13 ) 13 August 1943 (age 82) , El Progreso , Yoro, Honduras
- Party
- Liberal Party
- Spouse
- Siomara Girón
- Profession
- Businessperson
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Roberto
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Honduras
- Place of birth
- El Progreso
- Occupation
- entrepreneur
- Position held
- President of Honduras
- Political party
- Liberal Party of Honduras
- Native language
- Spanish
- Image
- Roberto micheletti 01.jpg
- Height
- 166
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- name in native language
- Roberto Micheletti Bain
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- Roberto Micheletti
- date of birth
- 1943-08-13
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Encyclopedic overview
Roberto Micheletti Baín (born 13 August 1943) is a Honduran politician who served as the interim and 36th president of Honduras from 28 June 2009, to 27 January 2010, as a result of the 2009 Honduran coup d'état.
The Honduran military ousted the President, and the National Congress read a letter of resignation, which was refuted two minutes later by Manuel Zelaya in conversation with CNN en Español; days later, the coup-plotters claimed that the Supreme Court had ordered to forcefully detain President Manuel Zelaya because "he was violating the Honduran constitution"; Zelaya was exiled rather than arrested. Micheletti, constitutionally next in line for the presidency, was sworn in as president by the National Congress a few hours after Zelaya was sent into exile by the Honduran military. He was not acknowledged as de jure president by any government or international organization. The 2009 general election took place as planned in November and elected Porfirio Lobo Sosa to succeed Micheletti.
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