2023 Guatemalan general election

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2023 Guatemalan general election
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Presidential election
Incumbent President

Alejandro Giammattei
Vamos



Legislative election
Party Leader Current seats
UNE Estuardo Vargas[b] 33
Vamos Allan Rodríguez 17
UCN[a] Napoleón Rojas 12
Valor Lucrecia de Palomo 9
BIEN Fidel Reyes Lee 8
FCN Javier Hernández 8
Semilla Samuel Pérez Álvarez 7
Todos Felipe Alejos 7
VIVA Alexandra Ajcip 7
CREO Óscar Chinchilla 6
PHG Lecsan Mérida 6
Winaq Sonia Gutiérrez 4
Unionist Álvaro Arzú Escobar 3
PC Hernán Morán 3
URNG Walter Félix 3
Victoria Juan Carlos Rivera 2
PAN Manuel Conde 2
MLP Vicenta Jerónimo 1
Podemos Alejandro De León 1
Oscar Argueta[b] 19
Independents – 2
Incumbent President of the Congress
Shirley Rivera
Vamos
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General elections will be held in Guatemala in 25 June 2023 to elect the President and Congress, with a second round of the presidential elections to be held in 20 August if no candidate wins a majority in the first round.

Incumbent President Alejandro Giammattei is constitutionally prohibited from running for a second four-year term.[1][2]

Guatemala's Election Formula[]

The President of Guatemala is elected using the two-round system.[3]

Congress[]

The 160 members of Congress are elected by two methods; 130 are elected from 22 multi-member constituencies based on the departments, with the remaining 31 elected from a single nationwide constituency. Seats are elected using closed list Proportional representation, with seats allocated using the D'Hondt method.[3]

Candidates[]

Potential candidates[]

Parliamentary parties[]

Name Ideology Political position 2019 result
Votes (%) Seats
UNE National Unity of Hope Social democracy Centre-left 17.92%
54 / 160
VAMOS Vamos Conservatism Right-wing 7.96%
17 / 160
UCN National Change Union[a] Conservatism Right-wing 5.46%
12 / 160
VALOR Valor Conservatism Right-wing 4.55%
9 / 160
FCN National Convergence Front Nationalism Right-wing 5.23%
8 / 160
BIEN Bienestar Nacional Conservative liberalism Centre-right 4.79%
8 / 160
SEMILLA Movimiento Semilla Social democracy Centre-left 5.24%
7 / 160
VIVA Vision with Values Conservatism Right-wing 4.70%
7 / 160
TODOS Todos Conservatism Right-wing 4.39%
7 / 160
PHG Humanist Party Humanism Centre-right 4.66%
6 / 160
CREO Commitment, Renewal and Order Neoliberalism Centre-right 4.40%
6 / 160
WINAQ Winaq Progressivism Left-wing 3.50%
4 / 160
VICTORIA Victoria Conservatism Right-wing 2.51%
4 / 160
PC Citizen Prosperity Humanism Centre-right 3.29%
3 / 160
PU Unionist Party Conservatism Right-wing 2.93%
3 / 160
URNG Guatemalan National Revolutionary Unity Democratic socialism Left-wing 2.78%
3 / 160
PAN National Advancement Party Conservatism Right-wing 2.72%
2 / 160
MLP Movement for the Liberation of Peoples Socialism Left-wing 2.98%
1 / 160
PODEMOS Podemos Conservatism Right-wing 1.68%
1 / 160

See also[]

Notes[]

  1. ^ a b Party registration cancelled by the Electoral Tribunal in 2019
  2. ^ a b The party is divided into two factions: Sandra Torres' faction (33 deputies) and Oscar Argueta Mayén's faction (19 deputies)

References[]

  1. ^ Jimmy Morales dice que le gustaría gobernar otro período
  2. ^ El presidente de Guatemala dice que le gustaría tener otro período de Gobierno
  3. ^ a b Congress of the Republic IFES

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