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2003 Guatemalan General Election
General elections were held in Guatemala on 9 November 2003, with a second round of the presidential election held on 28 December.Dieter Nohlen (2005) ''Elections in the Americas: A data handbook, Volume I'', p323 Óscar Berger won the presidential election, representing the Grand National Alliance, a coalition of alliance of the Patriotic Party, the Reform Movement and the National Solidarity Party. The Alliance were also victorious in the Congressional elections, winning 47 of the 158 seats. Voter turnout was 57.9% in the Congressional elections, 58.9% in the first round of the presidential elections and 46.8% in the second.Nohlen, p324 Presidential election The ruling Republican Front of Guatemala (FRG) nominated former military ruler Efraín Ríos Montt to succeed outgoing president Alfonso Portillo Cabrera. A constitutional ban on former coup leaders (Ríos Montt during 1982–83) led to strong conflict inside the country, including the besiegement of Guatemala for ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Óscar Berger
Óscar José Rafael Berger Perdomo (; born 11 August 1946) is a Guatemalan politician who served as the President of Guatemala from 2004 to 2008. Early years and family Berger was born to an upper-class family with large sugar and coffee holdings. His paternal grandparents were Belgian immigrants. He graduated in law from the private, Jesuit Rafael Landívar University. In 1967 he married Wendy Widmann, also from a land-owning Guatemalan family. He had a son after and has a grandchild named Juan Pablo Berger. Political career In 1985, he joined Álvaro Arzú's successful campaign to become mayor of Guatemala City. From January 1991 to June 1999, he was mayor himself. After leaving office, he ran in the 1999 presidential election as the candidate of the National Advancement Party, but lost to Alfonso Portillo. A representative of the industrial and land oligarchy that financed his electoral campaign, he was elected with 54.13% of the vote in the presidential election of D ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rubén Alfonso Ramírez
Rubén Alfonso Ramírez Enríquez (4 March 1936 – 11 February 2021) was a Guatemalan journalist, musician, writer and politician who served as the Minister of Education from September 2015 to January 2016 under the government of Alejandro Maldonado. References 1936 births 2021 deaths People from Suchitepéquez Department Guatemalan journalists Male journalists Guatemalan writers Guatemalan educators Education ministers of Guatemala {{Guatemala-politician-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Podemos (Guatemala)
Podemos (lit. ''We Can'') previously: Movimiento Reformador ( lit. ''Reform Movement'') is a conservative-liberal political party in Guatemala. It is led by Jorge Briz Abularach. 2003 election At the 2003 general election held on 9 November 2003, the party was part of the Grand National Alliance. In the legislative election, the Alliance won 24.3% of the vote, and 47 out of 158 seats in Congress. The presidential candidate of the alliance, Óscar Berger Perdomo, won 34.3% at the presidential elections of the same day. He won 54.1% in the second round and was elected president. Party leader Jorge Briz, who had run unsuccessfully for mayor of Guatemala City, was rewarded with the position of Foreign Minister A foreign affairs minister or minister of foreign affairs (less commonly minister for foreign affairs) is generally a cabinet minister in charge of a state's foreign policy and relations. The formal title of the top official varies between co ... in Berger's cabinet, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Transparency (Guatemala)
The Front for Democracy (''Frente por la Democracia'' or El Frente) was a political party in Guatemala. In the legislative elections An election is a formal group decision-making process by which a population chooses an individual or multiple individuals to hold public office. Elections have been the usual mechanism by which modern representative democracy has opera ... held on 9 September 2007, the party secured 0.91% of the votes in the race for national-list deputies and, save for defections, will have no seats in the 2008-12 Congress. ReferencesManifesto Catholic political parties [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Democratic Union (Guatemala)
The Democratic Union (''Unión Democrática'') was a political party in Guatemala. At the legislative elections, 9 November 2003, the party won 2.2% of the popular vote and 2 out of 158 seats. In the legislative elections An election is a formal group decision-making process by which a population chooses an individual or multiple individuals to hold public office. Elections have been the usual mechanism by which modern representative democracy has operated ... held on 9 September 2007, the party secured 1.41% of the votes in the race for national-list deputies and, save for defections, will have only one seat in the 2008-12 Congress. In the presidential election of the same day, its candidate Manuel Conde Orellana won 0.76% of the popular vote. Defunct political parties in Guatemala Political parties with year of disestablishment missing Political parties with year of establishment missing {{Guatemala-party-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
New Nation Alternative
The New Nation Alternative (''Alternativa Nueva Nación'') was a leftist political party in Guatemala. In the elections held on 9 November 2003, the party won 4.9% of the popular vote and 6 out of 158 seats. In the elections An election is a formal group decision-making process by which a population chooses an individual or multiple individuals to hold public office. Elections have been the usual mechanism by which modern representative democracy has opera ... held on 9 September 2007, the party secured 1.35% of the votes in the race for national-list deputies and, save for defections, will have no representation in the 2008-12 Congress. In the presidential election of the same day, its candidate Jorge Ismael Soto won 0.59% of the popular vote. Given its lack of representation in Congress and its insufficient percentage of the presidential vote, the party was forced to disband in 2007 in accordance with Guatemalan election law. References Defunct politica ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Social Participative Democracy
The Social Participative Democracy (''Democracia Social Participativa'') was a political party in Guatemala. At the last legislative elections, held on 9 November 2003, the party won 1.1% of the popular vote but no seats in Congress A congress is a formal meeting of the representatives of different countries, constituent states, organizations, trade unions, political parties, or other groups. The term originated in Late Middle English to denote an encounter (meeting of .... Its presidential candidate José Ángel Lee won 1.6% in the presidential elections of the same day. It became deregistered after it failed to achieve either 5% or a single deputy in the 2003 election. The idea of Social Participative Democracy stems from the idea of decentralization, meaning that civil members of a society should be able to be more actively involved in governmental decisions. References Defunct political parties in Guatemala {{Guatemala-party-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Guatemalan Christian Democracy
Guatemalan Christian Democracy (, DCG) was a political party in Guatemala. A moderate, reformist and anti-Communist party, it was a member of Centrist Democrat International, Christian Democrat International.Peter Calvert (2004) ''A Political and Economic Dictionary of Latin America'', Routledge History The party was established on 24 August 1955 by a group of Catholic businessmen.Robert J. Alexander (1982) ''Political parties of the Americas'', Greenwood Press, p422 Although initially a right wing-party, it gradually turned leftwards as younger leaders emerged. It won five of the 66 seats in the 1955 Guatemalan parliamentary election, December 1955 Congressional elections. In the 1957 Guatemalan general election, 1957 general elections it nominated Miguel Asturias Quiñóne as its presidential candidate; Asturias finished third out of the three candidates with 11% of the vote. In the 1958 Guatemalan general election, 1958 general elections it was part of a multi-party coalition ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jacobo Arbenz Villanova
Jacobo Arbenz Vilanova (born 13 November 1946) is a politician in Guatemala. He is the son of former progressive Guatemalan President Jacobo Arbenz Guzmán, who was overthrown in a CIA sponsored coup d'état in 1954. Arbenz Vilanova fled the country following the ouster of his father's government and spent almost 50 years in exile – in Mexico, France, Switzerland, Czech Republic, Soviet Union, Uruguay, Cuba and El Salvador, but mostly in Costa Rica – before deciding to return during the administration of Alfonso Portillo. After unsuccessfully trying to form his own political party to fight the 2003 presidential election, he was accepted as the candidate of the Christian Democracy Christian democracy (sometimes named Centrist democracy) is a political ideology that emerged in 19th-century Europe under the influence of Catholic social teaching and neo-Calvinism. It was conceived as a combination of modern democratic ... party (DCG) after two earlier DCG p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Authentic Integral Development
Authentic Integral Development (''Desarrollo Integral Auténtico'') was a left-wing nationalist political party in Guatemala. At the 2003 Guatemalan general election, held on 9 November 2003, the party won 3.0% of the popular vote and 1 out of 158 seats in Congress. Its presidential candidate Eduardo Suger Cofiño won 2.2% in the presidential elections of the same day. In the 2007 Guatemalan general election General elections were held in Guatemala on 9 September to elect a new President and Vice President of the Republic, 158 congressional deputies, and 332 mayors. As no presidential candidate received a majority of the vote, a second round was he ..., held on 9 September 2007, the party secured 1.43% of the votes in the race for national-list deputies and, save for defections, will have no representation in the 2008-12 Congress. In the presidential election of the same day, its candidate Héctor Rosales won 0.57% of the popular vote. The party has been deregistered since ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eduardo Suger
Eduardo Suger Cofiño (November 29, 1938) is a Swiss-born Guatemalan physicist, scholar, educator, and politician. He is one of the founders of Galileo University in Guatemala City and of the Suger Montano Institute. Suger was the first Central American to receive his PhD in physics. Early life Suger was born in Zürich, Switzerland on 29 November 1938 to Emilio Suger, a Swiss national, and Estela Cofiño Valladares of Acatenango, Chimaltenango, Guatemala. When World War II broke out, Suger's father was called up to complete his mandatory military service. Suger's mother spoke no German despite living in Switzerland and traveled to the Guatemalan Consulate in Germany for help returning to Guatemala. Shortly after she and Suger returned, she married Enrique Castañeda Rubio, an engineer and official in the Army, and had four more children. Suger lived with his maternal grandmother nearby from the time his mother remarried until his grandmother passed away in 1949/1950. Educat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Guatemalan National Revolutionary Unity
The Guatemalan National Revolutionary Unity (in Spanish: ''Unidad Revolucionaria Nacional Guatemalteca'', URNG-MAIZ or most commonly URNG) is a Guatemalan political party that started as a guerrilla movement but laid down its arms in 1996 and became a legal political party in 1998 after the peace process which ended the Guatemalan Civil War. Formation Since the CIA-backed coup in 1954, opposition groups were continuously forming in an attempt to fight against the repression that the military and wealthy landowners in Guatemala had created. The UNRG formed as a leftist umbrella organization consisting of four groups: the Guerrilla Army of the Poor (EGP), the Revolutionary Organization of People in Arms (ORPA), the Rebel Armed Forces (FAR) and the National Directing Nucleus of PGT (PGT-NDN). They became the public face of the long-running insurgency against the Guatemalan government throughout the Civil War. The URNG led the leftist opposition in peace negotiations with the c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
