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((Infobox political party
| name             = Guatemalan Christian Democracy
| native_name      = Democracia Cristiana Guatemalteca
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| founded          = ((Start date|1955|08|24))
| dissolved        = ((End date|2008|08|21))
| ideology         = [[Christian democracy]]
| regional         = [[Christian Democrat Organization of America]] <small>(Observer)</small>
| position         = [[Centre politics|Centre]]<ref>((Cite news|url=https://elpais.com/diario/1985/11/05/internacional/499993210_850215.html|title=Triunfo del candidato democristiano en Guatemala|last=|first=|date=4 November 1985|website=[[El País]]|access-date=17 January 2022|language=Spanish|last1=Comas |first1=José ))</ref>
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'''Guatemalan Christian Democracy''' (((Lang-es|Democracia Cristiana Guatemalteca)), DCG) was a [[political party]] in [[Guatemala]]. A moderate, reformist  and anti-Communist party, it was a member of [[Centrist Democrat International|Christian Democrat International]].<ref>Peter Calvert (2004) ''A Political and Economic Dictionary of Latin America'', Routledge</ref>

==History==
The party was established on 24 August 1955 by a group of Catholic businessmen.<ref name=RJA>Robert J. Alexander (1982) ''Political parties of the Americas'', Greenwood Press, p422</ref> Although initially a right wing-party, it gradually turned leftwards as younger leaders emerged.<ref name=RJA/> It won five of the 66 seats in the [[1955 Guatemalan parliamentary election|December 1955 Congressional elections]]. In the [[1957 Guatemalan general election|1957 general elections]] it nominated Miguel Asturias Quiñóne as its presidential candidate; Asturias finished third out of the three candidates with 11% of the vote. In the [[1958 Guatemalan general election|1958 general elections]] it was part of a multi-party coalition that nominated José Luis Cruz Salazar for the presidency;<ref name=DN>Dieter Nohlen (2005) ''Elections in the Americas A Data Handbook Volume 1. North America, Central America, and the Caribbean'', Oxford University Press, p339</ref> he finished second, losing the deciding vote in Congress. In the Congressional elections the DCG ran in alliance with the [[Party of Anticommunist Unification]] and [[Republican Party (Guatemala)|Republican Party]], together winning 20 of the 66 seats. Following the [[1959 Guatemalan parliamentary election|partial elections]] the following year, the DCG held 11 of the 66 seats. However, it was reduced to four seats in the [[1961 Guatemalan parliamentary election|1961 elections]].

Following the [[1963 Guatemalan coup d'état|1963 coup]], the DCG did not contest elections again until 1970. During the 1960s it became more radical, although it remained a centrist party. As a result of its growing radicalism, it became a target for [[right-wing terrorism]] and a scapegoat for the government during periods of urban violence.<ref name=RJA/> In the [[1970 Guatemalan general election|1970 elections]] it nominated Jorge Lucas Caballeros as its presidential candidate.<ref name=DN/> Also gaining the support of the illegal FURD,<ref name=DN/> Lucas finished third in the three-candidate field with 22% of the vote. The party also failed to win a seat in Congress. It was part of the [[National Opposition Front]] alliance for the fraudulent [[1974 Guatemalan general election|1974 elections]]. The alliance's presidential candidate [[José Efraín Ríos Montt]] finished second with 34% of the vote,<ref name=DN/> whilst the alliance won 14 of the 60 seats in Congress. However, the legality of that election, in which Ríos Montt lost to [[Kjell Laugerud García]], remains a matter of dispute.((citation needed|date=August 2020)) The [[1978 Guatemalan general election|1978 general elections]] saw the DCG nominate Ricardo Peralta Méndez as its presidential candidate alongside the Authentic Revolutionary Party. Peralta finished third with 26% of the vote, whilst the DCG won seven seats in Congress. By the end of the 1970s it was one of only two legal left-wing parties remaining in Guatemala, and following a string of assassinations against party leaders, the party announced it was closing its offices across the country in June 1980.<ref name=RJA/>

Prior to the [[1982 Guatemalan general election|1982 elections]] the party joined the [[National Opposition Union]] (UNO). The UNO nominated [[Alejandro Maldonado Aguirre]] as its presidential candidate. Maldonado finished third out of four candidates with 23% of the vote, whilst the UNO won nine of the 66 seats in Congress, of which the DCG took seven. Having won 20 of the 88 seats in the [[1984 Guatemalan Constitutional Assembly election|1984 Constitutional Assembly elections]], the [[1985 Guatemalan general election|1985 elections]] saw the DGC come to power for the first time in its history. Its presidential candidate [[Vinicio Cerezo]] was elected in the second round of voting with 68% of the vote, whilst the party won 51 of the 100 seats in Congress.<ref name=DN2/> After holding power for five years, the party was defeated in the [[1990 Guatemalan general election|1990 elections]] when its candidate Luis Alfonso Cabrera Hidalgo finished third in the presidential race, whilst the party was reduced to 27 seats in an expanded Congress.<ref name=DN2>Nohlen, p336</ref>

Following the [[1993 Guatemalan constitutional crisis|1993 constitutional crisis]], early [[1994 Guatemalan parliamentary election|parliamentary elections]] were held in 1994, in which the DCG won 13 of the 80 seats.<ref name=DN2/> In the [[1995 Guatemalan general election|general elections]] the following year it was reduced to only three seats, although presidential candidate Fernando Andrade Díaz-Duran finished third with 13% of the vote. The party did not have a presidential candidate in the [[1999 Guatemalan general election|1999 elections]] and won only two seats in Congress. The [[2003 Guatemalan general election|2003 elections]] saw the party lose Congressional representation, whilst its presidential candidate [[Jacobo Arbenz Villanova]] received only 1.6% of the vote. The DCG also failed to win a seat in the [[2007 Guatemalan general election|2007 elections]], with presidential candidate Vinicio Cerezo Blandón receiving only 0.5% of the vote.

Having failed to secure the minimum of 5% of the popular vote or one seat in Congress, the DCG forfeited its registration as a party.

==References==
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((Guatemalan political parties))
((Authority control))

[[Category:Defunct political parties in Guatemala]]
[[Category:Political parties established in 1955]]
[[Category:1955 establishments in Guatemala]]
[[Category:Political parties disestablished in 2008]]
[[Category:2008 disestablishments in Guatemala]]
[[Category:Catholic political parties]]
[[Category:Christian democratic parties in South America]]

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