The New Nation Alternative (''Alternativa Nueva Nación'') was a
leftist
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political party
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in
Guatemala
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.
In the
elections
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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 political parties in Guatemala
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