Front for Democracy

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Front for Democracy
Frente por la Democracia
AbbreviationEl Frente, FPD
Founded1 July 2003 (as Transparency) [1]
Dissolved2007
Split from Guatemalan Christian Democracy [2]
Ideology Direct Democracy
Christian democracy [3]
Political position Centre to centre-left [4] [lower-alpha 1]
Colorsgreen

  1. Also called centre-right [2] and left-wing [5]

The Front for Democracy (Frente por la Democracia or El Frente) was a political party in Guatemala. In the legislative elections held on 9 September 2007, the party secured 0.91% of the votes in the race for national-list deputies and, save for defections, will have no seats in the 2008-12 Congress.

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Manifesto

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  2. 1 2 Lansford, Tom (2015). Political Handbook of the World 2015. CQ Press. p. 575. ISBN   9781483371580.
  3. "Tendencias electorales y entorno empresarial de presidenciables". Konrad Adenauer Foundation / Instituto Centroamericano de Estudios Políticos (in Spanish). 22 May 2007. p. 11. Retrieved 16 January 2023.
  4. Rudi Ariel Ruano González (April 2009). "Triunfo del candidato democristiano en Guatemala" (PDF). Universidad de San Carlos de Guatemala (in Spanish). p. 51. Retrieved 16 January 2023.
  5. Carlos Aníbal Martínez (January 2007). "Rigoberta Menchú und was die nächste Regierung Guatemalas erwartet". Nueva Sociedad / Democracia y política en América Latina (in German). Retrieved 16 January 2023.