National Convergence Front

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National Convergence Front
Leader Edgar Justiniano Ovalle
Founded 7 January 2008
Ideology Nationalism[1]
Conservatism[2][3]
Political position Right-wing[4][5][6]
Colors      Blue
Seats in Congress
11 / 158
Website
www.fcnnacion.com
Politics of Guatemala
Political parties
Elections

The National Convergence Front (Spanish: Frente de Convergencia Nacional, FCN–Nación) is a political party in Guatemala.

History

The party was established on 7 January 2008. It was initiated by a group of retired army officers, including veterans of Guatemalan Civil War, affiliated with the Military Veterans Association of Guatemala AVEMILGUA.[7] FCN did not nominate a presidential candidate in the 2011 general elections, but contested the Congressional elections, receiving 0.5% of the vote and failing to win a seat.[8]

In March 2013, the party chose the popular comic TV actor Jimmy Morales as its secretary-general.[9]

Jimmy Morales was the party's presidential candidate in the 2015 elections, which he won, receiving the greatest vote share in the first round (24%) and beating former first lady Sandra Torres in the run-off with 67.44% of the vote. In the Congressional elections FCN received the fifth-highest vote share at 9%, winning 11 of the 158 seats.[10] FCN's head of the national list was Édgar Justino Ovalle Maldonado who is considered to be Jimmy Morales' "right-hand man". He commanded counter-insurgency operations in the Ixil Community in the early 1980s during which several massacres against the Ixil Mayas took place.[11] The violence against the Ixil was acknowledged as a genocide by the Supreme Court of Guatemala, but is denied by Jimmy Morales.[12]

References

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  8. ↑ Republic of Guatemala: Legislative elections of 11 September 2011 Adam Carr
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  10. ↑ Congresistas señalados son reelectos Prensa Libre, 8 September 2015
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