List of political parties in Guatemala

This article lists political parties in Guatemala. Guatemala has a multi-party system, with two or three strong political parties and other parties that are electorally successful. According to law if a party fails to get 4% of the vote or at least one deputy in congress, the party is canceled.

Political culture

Political parties in Guatemala are generally numerous and unstable. No party has won the presidency more than once. In every election period the majority of the parties are small and newly formed.

Parties

• Democratic Union (Unión Democrática)
• Encounter for Guatemala (Encuentro por Guatemala)
• Grand National Alliance (Gran Alianza Nacional (GANA))
• Guatemalan National Revolutionary Unity (Unidad Revolucionaria Nacional Guatemalteca (URNG-MAIZ))
• Institutional Republican Party (Partido Republicano Institucional (PRI)) - formerly Guatemalan Republican Front (Frente Republicano Guatemalteco)
• Movimiento Nueva República (MNR) (Movimiento Nueva República (MNR))
• National Advancement Party (Partido de Avanzada Nacional (PAN))
• National Unity of Hope (Unidad Nacional de la Esperanza (UNE))
• Nationalist Change Union (Unión del Cambio Nacionalista (UCN))
• Patriotic Party (Partido Patriota)
• Renewed Democratic Liberty (Libertad Democrática Renovada (LIDER))
• Social Action Centre (Centro de Acción Social (CASA))
• CREO-Unionist Party (Partido CREO-Unionista)
• Victoria (some strength in Solola and Palín)
• National Convergence Front (Frente de Convergencia Nacional (FCN))
• Winaq
• Vision with Values (Vision con Valores (ViVa))
• New Heart Nation - (Corazon Nueva Nacion (CNN))

Parties which did not contest the 2007 election

• Reform Movement (Movimiento Reformador)
• Social Democrat Party

Former parties

• Deregistered in 2003:
  • Social Participative Democracy (Democracia Social Participativa)
  • Transparency (Transparencia)
• Deregistered in 2007:
  • Authentic Integral Development (Desarollo Integral Auténtico)
  • Front for Democracy (Frente por la Democracia)
  • Guatemalan Christian Democracy (Democracia Cristiana Guatemalteca)
  • New Nation Alliance (Alianza Nueva Nación)
• Became the Grand National Alliance:
  • National Solidarity Party (Partido Solidaridad Nacional)

See also

• Politics of Guatemala
• Elections in Guatemala

External links

• Guatemalan Electoral and Political Parties law