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Parties: AN: National Alliance (DCG + UCN + PSD coalition) - ANN: Alliance New Nation (URNG + DIA coalition) - CAN: National Authentic Centre - CAO: Organized Aranista Central - CASA: Social Action Centre - CREO: Commitment, Renovation, Order - CUN: Crusade of National Union (DCG + PRA coalition) - DCG: Guatemalan Christian Democracy - DIA: True Integral Development - FCN-Nación: National Convergence Front - FDNG: New Guatemala Democratic Front - FDP People's Democratic Front (PID + PR + FUN coalition) - FNO: National Opposition Front (DCG + PRA + FUR coalition) - FRG: Guatemalan Republican Front - Fuerza: Force - FUN: Front of National Union - FUR: United Front of the Revolution - GANA: Grand National Alliance (PP + MR + PSN coalition) - LIDER: Renewed Democratic Liberty - MAS: Solidarity Action Movement - MLN: National Liberation Movement - MLP: Movement for the Liberation of Peoples - MR: Reform Movement - PAN: National Advancement Party - PAR: Revolutionary Action Party - PDCN: Democratic Party of National Cooperation - PHG: Humanist Party of Guatemala - PID: Democratic Institutional Party - PLP: Progressive Liberating Party - PNR: National Renewal Party - PP: Patriotic Party - PR: Revolutionary Party - PRA: True Revolutionary Party - PRDN: National Democratic Reconciliation/Redemption Party - PSD: Social Democratic Party - PSN: National Solidarity Party - Movimiento Semilla: Seed Movement - UCN: Union of National Center - UCN: National Change Union - UNE: National Union of Hope - UNO: National Opposition Union (DCG + PNR coalition) - URNG: Guatemalan National Revolutionary Unity - Vamos por una Guatemala Diferente: We are going for a Different Guatemala - VIVA: Vision with Values
Heads of State |
Revolutionary Junta of Government -Maj. Francisco Javier Arana (†1949) military -Capt. Jacobo Arbenz Guzmán (†1971) military -Jorge Toriello Garrido 20 Oct 1944 - 15 Mar 1945 (†1998) Presidents of the Republic Juan José Arévalo Bermejo 15 Mar 1945 - 15 Mar 1951 (†1990) PAR Jacobo Arbenz Guzmán 15 Mar 1951 - 27 Jun 1954 (†1971) PAR Carlos Enrique Díaz de León 27 Jun 1954 - 28 Jun 1954 (†1971) military (provisional) I Junta of Government -Col. Elfego Hernán Monzón Aguirre (†1981) military -Col. José Ángel Sánchez military -Col. José Luis Cruz Salazar military -Col. Carlos Enrique Díaz de León (†1971) military -Col. Mauricio Dubois 28 Jun 1954 - 2 Jul 1954 military II Junta of Government -Col. Carlos Castillo Armas (†1957) military, chair (1) -Col. Mauricio Dubois military -Maj. Enrique Trinidad Oliva military -Col. Elfego Hernán Monzón Aguirre (†1981) military -Col. José Luis Cruz Salazar 2 Jul 1954 - 1 Sep 1954 military Presidents of the Republic Carlos Castillo Armas 1 Sep 1954 - 26 Jul 1957 (†1957) military Luis Arturo González López 27 Jul 1957 - 24 Oct 1957 (†1965) (acting) Military Junta of Government -Col. Óscar Mendoza Azurdia military, chair -Col. Gonzalo Yurrita Nova military -Col. Roberto Lorenzana Salazar 24 Oct 1957 - 26 Oct 1957 (†2007) military Presidents of the Republic Guillermo Flores Avendaño 27 Oct 1957 - 2 Mar 1958 (†1982) military (acting) José Miguel Ramón Ydígoras Fuentes 2 Mar 1958 - 31 Mar 1963 (†1982) PRDN Alfredo Enrique Peralta Azurdia 31 Mar 1963 - 1 Jul 1966 (†1997) military (2) Julio César Méndez Montenegro 1 Jul 1966 - 1 Jul 1970 (†1996) PR Carlos Manuel Arana Osorio 1 Jul 1970 - 1 Jul 1974 (†2003) military, MLN/PID Kjell Eugenio Laugerud García 1 Jul 1974 - 1 Jul 1978 (†2009) military, MLN/PID Fernando Romeo Lucas García 1 Jul 1978 - 23 Mar 1982 (†2006) military, PID/PR/CAO José Efraín Ríos Montt 23 Mar 1982 - 8 Aug 1983 (†2018) military (3) Óscar Humberto Mejía Víctores 8 Aug 1983 - 14 Jan 1986 (†2016) military (4) Marco Vinicio Cerezo Arévalo 14 Jan 1986 - 14 Jan 1991 DCG Jorge Antonio Serrano Elías 14 Jan 1991 - 1 Jun 1993 MAS (5) Ramiro de León Carpio 6 Jun 1993 - 14 Jan 1996 (†2002) n/p Álvaro Enrique Arzú Yrigoyen 14 Jan 1996 - 14 Jan 2000 (†2018) PAN Alfonso Antonio Portillo Cabrera 14 Jan 2000 - 14 Jan 2004 FRG Óscar Rafael Berger Perdomo 14 Jan 2004 - 14 Jan 2008 GANA Álvaro Colom Caballeros 14 Jan 2008 - 14 Jan 2012 (†2023) UNE Otto Fernando Pérez Molina 14 Jan 2012 - 3 Sep 2015 PP Alejandro Maldonado Aguirre 3 Sep 2015 - 14 Jan 2016 n/p James Ernesto ('Jimmy') Morales Cabrera 14 Jan 2016 - 14 Jan 2020 FCN-Nación Alejandro Eduardo Giammattei Falla 14 Jan 2020 - 14 Jan 2024 Vamos César Bernardo Arévalo de León 15 Jan 2024 - Semilla |
Notes
(1) Col. Carlos Castillo Armas was chairman of the 2nd Junta of Government to 1 Sep 1954 and then president of the Republic. In rebellion was head of the Provisional Government from 16 Jun 1954 to 2 Jul 1954, when joined the newly constituted four-member Junta of Government, becoming its chairman. By 1 Sep 1954 the only Junta members were Castillo, Trinidad and Monzón.
(2) Styled head of Government to 5 May 1966 and then head of State instead of president.
(3) Gen. Ríos Montt was chairman of the Military Junta of Government to 9 Jun 1982 and then president of the Republic. The other members of the three-man Military Junta were Gen. Horacio Egberto Maldonado Schaad and Col. Francisco Luis Gordillo Martínez.
(4) Styled head of State instead of president.
(5) Although president Jorge Antonio Serrano abandoned the office on 1 Jun 1993 and vicepresident Gustavo Adolfo Espina Salguero was the constitutionally designated successor, the Presidential office was formally declared vacant by the Congress only on 5 Jun 1993; by the time of this resolution, Espina Salguero had been declared disqualified by the Tribunal Constitucional, and the Congress, in its declaration of vacancy,
took this declaration into account and declared the Vicepresidential office vacant as well. The Congress
elected Ramiro de León Carpio as president on 5 Jun 1993, to take office on 6 Jun.
Vice Presidents of the Republic |
Clemente Marroquín Rojas 1966-1970 (†1978) Eduardo Cáceres Lehnhoff 1970-1974 (†1980) Mario Augusto Sandoval Alarcón 1974-1978 (†2003) Francisco Villagrán Kramer 1978-1980 (†2011) Óscar Mendoza Azurdia 1980-1982 (†1995) Roberto Carpio Nicolle 1986-1991 (†2022) Gustavo Adolfo Espina Salguero 1991-1993 Arturo Herbruger Asturias 1993-1996 (†1999) Luis Alberto Flores Asturias 1996-2000 Juan Francisco Reyes López 2000-2004 (†2019) Eduardo Stein Barillas 2004-2008 José Rafael Espada 2008-2012 Ingrid Roxana Baldetti Elías 2012-2015 Alejandro Maldonado Aguirre 2015 Juan Alfonso Fuentes Soria 2015-2016 Jafet Ernesto Cabrera Franco 2016-2020 César Guillermo Castillo Reyes 2020- |
Presidential candidates |
1966 1st Julio César Méndez Montenegro (†1996) PR 2nd Juan de Dios Aguilar de León (†2007) military, PID 3rd Miguel Angel Ponciano Samayoa (†1997) military, MLN 1970 1st Carlos Manuel Arana Osorio (†2003) military, MLN 2nd Mario Fuentes Pieruccini (†2010) PR 3rd Jorge Lucas Caballeros (†197?) military, DCG 1974 1st Kjell Eugenio Laugerud García (†2009) military, MLN/PID 2nd José Efraín Ríos Montt (†2018) military, FNO 3rd Ernesto Paiz Novales military, PR 1978 1st Fernando Romeo Lucas García (†2006) military, PID/PR/CAO 2nd Alfredo Enrique Peralta Azurdia (†1997) military, MLN 3rd Ricardo Peralta Méndez military, CUN 1982 1st Ángel Aníbal Guevara Rodríguez military, FDP 2nd Mario Augusto Sandoval Alarcón (†2003) MLN 3rd Alejandro Maldonado Aguirre UNO 4th Gustavo Anzueto Vielnam CAN 1985 1st Marco Vinicio Cerezo Arévalo DCG 2nd Jorge Carpio Nicolle (†1993) UCN 3rd Jorge Antonio Serrano Elías PDCN/PR 4th Mario Augusto Sandoval Alarcón (†2003) MLN/PID 1990/1st Jorge Antonio Serrano Elías MAS 1991 2nd Jorge Carpio Nicolle (†1993) UCN 3rd Luis Alfonso Cabrera Hidalgo DCG 4th Álvaro Enrique Arzú Yrigoyen (†2018) PAN 1995 1st Álvaro Enrique Arzú Yrigoyen (†2018) PAN 2nd Alfonso Antonio Portillo Cabrera FRG 3rd Fernando Andrade Díaz-Durán AN 4th Jorge Luis González del Valle FDNG 1999 1st Alfonso Antonio Portillo Cabrera FRG 2nd Óscar Rafael Berger Perdomo PAN 3rd Álvaro Colom Caballeros (†2023) ANN 4th Acisclo Valladares Molina PLP 2003 1st Óscar Rafael Berger Perdomo GANA 2nd Álvaro Colom Caballeros (†2023) UNE 3rd José Efraín Ríos Montt (†2018) FRG 4th Leonel Eliseo Lopez Rodas PAN 2007 1st Álvaro Colom Caballeros (†2023) UNE 2nd Otto Fernado Pérez Molina PP 3rd Alejandro Eduardo Giammattei Falla GANA 4th José Eduardo Suger Cofiño CASA 2011 1st Otto Fernado Pérez Molina PP 2nd Manuel Antonio Baldizón Méndez LIDER 3rd José Eduardo Suger Cofiño CREO 4th Mario Amílcar Estrada Orellana UCN 2015 1st James Ernesto ('Jimmy') Morales Cabrera FCN-Nación 2nd Sandra Julieta Torres Casanova UNE 3rd Manuel Antonio Baldizón Méndez LIDER 4th Alejandro Eduardo Giammattei Falla Fuerza 2019 1st Alejandro Eduardo Giammattei Falla Vamos 2nd Sandra Julieta Torres Casanova UNE 3rd Edmond Auguste Mulet Lesieur PHG 4th Thelma Cabrera Pérez de Sánchez MLP 2023 1st César Bernardo Arévalo de León Semilla 2nd Sandra Julieta Torres Casanova UNE 3rd Manuel Eduardo Conde Orellana Vamos 4th Armando Damián Castillo Alvarado VIVA |
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