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National Centre Union (, UCN) was a
political party A political party is an organization that coordinates candidates to compete in a particular country's elections. It is common for the members of a party to hold similar ideas about politics, and parties may promote specific political ideology ...
in
Guatemala Guatemala ( ; ), officially the Republic of Guatemala ( es, República de Guatemala, links=no), is a country in Central America. It is bordered to the north and west by Mexico; to the northeast by Belize and the Caribbean; to the east by H ...
founded in 1983, by
Jorge Carpio Nicolle Jorge Carpio Nicolle (October 24, 1932 – July 3, 1993) was a prominent Guatemalan politician and newspaper publisher. He was the founder of the Unión del Centro Nacional (National Centrist Union, or UCN) in 1984, and ran as the party's cand ...
,
Ramiro de León Carpio Ramiro de León Carpio (12 January 1942 – 16 April 2002) was the President of Guatemala from 6 June 1993 until 14 January 1996. Career De León studied law at the University of San Carlos and then at the Rafael Landívar University, wh ...
and
Mario Taracena Mario Taracena Díaz-Sol (born 6 May 1957) is a Guatemalan politician. He was President of the Congress of Guatemala from January 2016 to January 2017. Taracena started his political career in 1984 and since then has served multiple times in the ...
. It was succeeded ideologically in 1995 by the Partido de Avanzada Nacional (PAN) and then in 2003 by the Gran Alianza Nacional (GANA).


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Centrist parties in North America Political parties established in 1983 Political parties disestablished in 2000 Political parties in Guatemala {{Guatemalan political parties