Arístides Mejía Carranza (born July 30, 1960) served as the Vice President Commissioner of Honduras from 1 February 2009 until 28 June 2009. The position of "Vice President Commissioner" was created by former

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after then-Vice President Elvin Santos resigned in late 2008. Arístides Mejía didn't fully occupied the charge, he was a Presidential Commissioner not a vice-president since he was appointed by President Zelaya and not popularly elected.

Biography

He is a son of Arístides Mejía and Orfilia Carranza. He was a lawyer at the

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. He was the Honduran Ambassador to Greece (1994–1998). Mejía was a part-time legal adviser of the

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(1999–2002), and the executive director of the Program for Modernization of the Administration of Justice. (1998–2003). He was the President and Judge of the Supreme Electoral Tribunal (2004–2005) and served as Secretary of National Defense from January 2006 until January 2009 under the presidency of Manuel Zelaya. He is married and father of three children: two daughters and a son. He speaks Spanish, French and English. After the 2009 Honduran coup d'état Arístides Mejía chose to exile himself and do diplomatic work abroad to restore

in the presidency. As a consequence of the 2009 Honduran coup d'état, an arrest warrant was issued in Honduras for abuse of authority.

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however deemed that the warrant was due to political causes and declined to cooperate with the Honduran police force. On April 9, 2010, the charges were definitely dropped against him.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Mejia, Aristides Vice presidents of Honduras 1960 births Living people Ambassadors of Honduras to Greece Liberal Party of Honduras politicians Government ministers of Honduras Universidad Nacional Autónoma de Honduras alumni