Renewed Democratic Liberty ( es, Libertad Democrática Renovada, ''LIDER'', sometimes also translated as Democratic Freedom Revival or Renewed Democratic Liberation)
was a
centre-right
Centre-right politics lean to the right of the political spectrum, but are closer to the centre. From the 1780s to the 1880s, there was a shift in the Western world of social class structure and the economy, moving away from the nobility and ...
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 ideological or p ...
in
Guatemala.
It was founded as a parliamentary group by defectors from the then governing
National Unity of Hope
The National Unity of Hope ( es, Unidad Nacional de la Esperanza, UNE) is a political party in Guatemala. It was founded in 2002 and defines itself as a social-democratic and social-christian party. It is the largest political party in Guatemal ...
party of President
Álvaro Colom
Álvaro Colom Caballeros (; born 15 June 1951) is a Guatemalan politician who was the President of Guatemala from 2008 to 2012, as well as leader of the social democracy, social-democratic National Unity of Hope (UNE).
Early years
Colom was bor ...
in 2008.
It was officially registered as a political party in 2010. At the end of the 2007-2011 legislature, the Independent Renewed Democratic Liberty parliamentary bloc included 25 out of the 158 deputies in the
Congress of the Republic, where it formed a parliamentary alliance with the conservative
Grand National Alliance (GANA).
On July 25, 2016 the party was cancelled by the Supreme Electoral Court due to constant breaking of the Electoral and Political Parties Law.
History
For the
2011 presidential election and the
2015 Guatemalan election, the party's secretary-general and candidate was
Manuel Baldizón.
In the 2011 election, Baldizón polled in second place in both the first round and second round of the election, with 23 percent and 46 percent of the votes cast, respectively.
In the 2015 election, he polled in third place, with 19.6 percent of the votes cast, and thus did not go onto the runoff election to select the president.
According to Insight Crime, the ''Renewed Democratic Liberty'' has strong ties with groups of drug traffickers.
2011 legislative election
In the September 11, 2011 Legislative Election, LIDER won 8.9% of the vote and 14 seats in Congress. Presidential Candidate
Manuel Baldizón placed second in the Presidential Race with 23.2% of the votes (1,038,287 votes), eventually losing in the November 6 run-off to conservative
Otto Pérez Molina
Otto Fernando Pérez Molina (born 1 December 1950) is a Guatemalan politician and retired general, who was President of Guatemala from 2012 to 2015. Standing as the Patriotic Party (''Partido Patriota'') candidate, he lost the 2007 president ...
of the
Patriotic Party
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(PP). Baldizón got 1,981,003 votes or 46.26% of the votes.
References
External links
Campaign website of Manuel Baldizon LIDER frontrunner (in Spanish)
2010 establishments in Guatemala
2016 disestablishments in Guatemala
Conservative parties in Guatemala
Defunct political parties in Guatemala
Political parties disestablished in 2016
Political parties established in 2010
Populist parties
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