Leaders of Guatemala
(Republic of Guatemala)
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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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