Parliamentary elections were held 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 ...
on 14 August 1994,
[ Nohlen, D (2005) ''Elections in the Americas: A data handbook, Volume I'', p323 ] following the premature dissolution of Congress during the
1993 constitutional crisis, and in view of implementing constitutional reforms approved in January 1994. The result was a victory for the
Guatemalan Republican Front, which won 33 of the 80 seats. Voter turnout was just 21%.
[Nohlen, p324]
The 1993 constitutional crisis started on 25 May 1993, when the then President
Jorge Serrano Elías attempted a
self-coup or ''autogolpe''. Serrano suspended the constitution, dissolved Congress and the Supreme Court, imposed
censorship and tried to restrict civil liberties.
[Barry S. Levitt (2006), "A Desultory Defense of Democracy: OAS Resolution 1080 and the Inter-American Democratic Charter, ''Latin American Politics and Society'', Volume 48, Issue 3, September 2006, Pages: 93–123. pp104-5] Serrano's actions were met with broad national and international opposition and ruled "illegal" by the Constitutional Court of Guatemala, following which Serrano was forced to resign.
Results
References
Bibliography
* Villagrán Kramer, Francisco. Biografía política de Guatemala: años de guerra y años de paz. FLACSO-Guatemala, 2004.
* Political handbook of the world 1994. New York, 1995.
* Elections in the Americas A Data Handbook Volume 1. North America, Central America, and the Caribbean. Edited by Dieter Nohlen. 2005.
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