National Convergence Front

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National Convergence Front
Frente de Convergencia Nacional
PresidentJimmy Morales
General SecretaryJavier Alfonso Hernández Franco
Founded7 January 2008
Dissolved8 January 2024[1]
IdeologyConservatism[2][3]
Nationalism[4]
Christian right[5][6][7]
Political positionRight-wing[8][9][10] to far-right[11]
Colors  Blue
Website
www.fcnnacion.com

The National Convergence Front (Spanish: Frente de Convergencia Nacional, FCN–Nación) was a right-wing political party in Guatemala.[12]

History

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The party was established on 7 January 2008. It was initiated by a group of retired army officers, including veterans of Guatemalan Civil War, affiliated with the Military Veterans Association of Guatemala AVEMILGUA.[13] FCN did not nominate a presidential candidate in the 2011 general elections, but contested the Congressional elections, receiving 0.5% of the vote and failing to win a seat.[14] In March 2013, the party chose the popular comic TV actor Jimmy Morales as its General Secretary.[15]

Morales was the party's presidential candidate in the 2015 elections, which he won after receiving the largest vote share in the first round (24%) and then beating former first lady Sandra Torres in the run-off with 67% of the vote. In the Congressional elections the FCN received the fifth-highest vote share (9%), winning 11 of the 158 seats.[16]

FCN's head of the national list was Édgar Justino Ovalle Maldonado who is considered to be Jimmy Morales' "right-hand man". He commanded counter-insurgency operations in the Ixil Community in the early 1980s during which several massacres against the Ixil Mayas took place.[17] The violence against the Ixil was acknowledged as a genocide by the Supreme Court of Guatemala, but is denied by Jimmy Morales.[18]

Election results

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President

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Election Candidate First round Second round Status
President Vice President Votes % Votes %
2011 Did not participate
2015 Jimmy Morales Jafeth Cabrera 1,152,394 23.99% 2,751,058 67.44% Won
2019 Estuardo Galdámez Betty Marroquín Silva 180,983 4.12% — — Lost
2023 Sammy Morales Miguel Moir 21,971 0.53% — — Lost

Congress

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Election Votes % Seats +/– Status
2011 23,272 0.53 (#14)
0 / 158
 New Extra-parliamentary
2015 403,086 8.84 (#5)
11 / 158
 Increase 11 Government
2019 211,453 5.23 (#5)
8 / 160
 Decrease 3 External support
2023 28,827 0.69 (#23)
0 / 160
 Decrease 8 Extra-parliamentary

References

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