predecessor president office birth_date term_start order image article_title birth_name
roxana baldetti otto pérez molina vice president of guatemala 06 january 1936 may 14 , 2015 40px 14th alejandrobaltazarmaldonadoaguirre.png alejandro maldonado aguirre
 alejandro maldonado aguirre
alejandro maldonado aguirre

alejandro maldonado aguirre -lrb- born january 6 , 1936 -rrb- is the current vice president of guatemala .
he was selected by the congress of guatemala on may 14 , 2015 after his predecessor resigned amid allegations of corruption .
before becoming vice president , he was a constitutional judge , cabinet minister , ambassador and political leader .
in may 2013 maldonado was judge on the appeal case of former guatemalan president efraín ríos montt .
whereas in the first session ríos montt was found guilty , maldonado and two others of the five-person constitutional court of guatemala annulled the verdict .
one week after his appointment as vice president protestors sought his resignation because he had overturned the guilty verdict in the ríos montt trial .
