Guatemalan general election, 2019

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Guatemalan general election, 2019
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  2015 June 16, 2019 (first round)
August 2019 (second round)
2023 
  Giammattei (cropped).jpg Zury Rios (cropped).jpg
Nominee Alejandro Giammattei Zury Ríos
Party Vamos Valor
Home state Guatemala Guatemala
Running mateGuillermo CastilloRoberto Molina

Incumbent President

Jimmy Morales
FCN


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This article is part of a series on the
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General elections will be held in Guatemala in June 16, 2019 to elect the President and Congress, with a second round of the presidential elections to be held in August if no candidate wins a majority in the first round.

Guatemala republic in Central America

Guatemala, officially the Republic of Guatemala, is a country in Central America bordered by Mexico to the north and west, Belize and the Caribbean to the northeast, Honduras to the east, El Salvador to the southeast and the Pacific Ocean to the south. With an estimated population of around 16.6 million, it is the most populated country in Central America. Guatemala is a representative democracy; its capital and largest city is Nueva Guatemala de la Asunción, also known as Guatemala City.

Contents

Incumbent President, Jimmy Morales, is constitutionally prohibited from running for a second four-year term. [1] [2]

Jimmy Morales Guatemalan politician, film director and film producer

Jimmy Morales is a Guatemalan politician, actor, screenwriter and director, who won the 2015 Guatemalan presidential election and has served as President of Guatemala since January 2016. He joined the National Convergence Front (FCN/Nation) party in 2013 and became its General Secretary. Prior to his entry into politics he was a comic actor.

Electoral system

The President of Guatemala is elected using the two-round system. [3]

President of Guatemala head of state and head of government of Guatemala

The President of Guatemala officially known as the President of the Republic of Guatemala, is the head of state and head of government of Guatemala, elected to a single four-year term.

Two-round system voting system used to elect a single winner where a second round of voting is used if no candidate wins an absolute majority in the first round

The two-round system is a voting method used to elect a single winner, where the voter casts a single vote for their chosen candidate. However, if no candidate receives the required number of votes, then those candidates having less than a certain proportion of the votes, or all but the two candidates receiving the most votes, are eliminated, and a second round of voting is held.

The 160 members of Congress are elected by two methods; 130 are elected from 22 multi-member constituencies based on the departments , with the remaining 31 elected from a single nationwide constituency. Seats are elected using closed list proportional representation, with seats allocated using the d'Hondt method. [3]

Departments of Guatemala Wikimedia list article

Guatemala is divided into 22 departments which are in turn divided into 340 municipalities.

Closed list describes the variant of party-list proportional representation where voters can (effectively) only vote for political parties as a whole and thus have no influence on the party-supplied order in which party candidates are elected. If voters have at least some influence then it is called an open list.

The D'Hondt method or the Jefferson method is a highest averages method for allocating seats, and is thus a type of party-list proportional representation. The method described is named in the United States after Thomas Jefferson, who introduced the method for proportional allocation of seats in the United States House of Representatives in 1791, and in Europe after Belgian mathematician Victor D'Hondt, who described it in 1878 for proportional allocation of parliamentary seats to the parties. There are two forms: closed list and an open list.

Candidates

Proclaimed candidates

Presidential candidate, agePolitical officesVice Presidential candidate, agePolitical officesPartyRef.
Alejandro Giammattei
(62)
Giammattei (cropped).jpg Director of the Prison System
(2006–2008)
Presidential candidate
(2007, 2011 and 2015)
Guillermo Castillo
(52)
No image.svg Director of the Chamber
of Commerce

(2013–2018)
Vamos [4] [5]
[6] [7]
Freddy Cabrera
Freddy Cabrera (2014).jpg President of the Association of Lawyers and Notaries
(2011–2014)
Ricardo Sagastume
Ricardo Sagastume (2015).jpg Minister of Economy
(2015)
Todos Logo.svg
Todos
Mauricio Radford
(57)
Mauricio Radford (2015).jpg Leader of Fuerza
(2015–present)
Abundio Maldonado
No image.png Director of Civil Aeronautics
(2000–2004)
Fuerza
Zury Ríos
(51)
Zury Rios (cropped).jpg Presidential candidate
(2015)
First Vice President of Congress
(2000–2004)
Member of Congress
(1996–2012)
Roberto Molina Barreto
(63)
Roberto Molina Barreto (2014).jpg President of the Constitutional Court
(2014–2015)
Attorney General
(2005–2006)
Valor [8] [9]
[10] [6]

Declared candidates

National Advancement Party

Encuentro por Guatemala/Semilla/Libre

Thelma Aldana Guatemalan jurist and politician

Thelma Esperanza Aldana Hernández is a Guatemalan jurist and politician, former President of the Supreme Court and former Attorney General. Aldana is a presidential candidate in the 2019 elections.

Guatemala Attorney General

The Attorney General of Guatemala is the chief attorney general of Guatemala.

Commitment, Renewal and Order

Adela de Torrebiarte Guatemalan politician

Adela Camacho de Torrebiarte is a Guatemalan politician. She served as the president of the National Football Federation of Guatemala (FENAFUTG) from 2016 to 2017. She was also a candidate in the 2011 presidential election.

National Change Union

National Unity of Hope

Bienestar Nacional

Vision with Values

Humanist Party

Podemos

Others

Potential candidates

Declined candidates

Opinion polls

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