President of the Republic of Guatemala Presidente de la República de Guatemala | |
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Office of the President of Guatemala National Security Council | |
Style | Mr. President (informal) Most Excellent Mr. President of the Republic (official) His Excellency (alternative formal, diplomatic outside of Guatemala) |
Member of | Cabinet |
Residence | National Palace |
Seat | Guatemala City |
Appointer | Supreme Electoral Court |
Term length | Four years non-renewable |
Constituting instrument | Guatemalan Constitution |
Inaugural holder | Mariano Rivera Paz |
Formation | 3 December 1839 |
Deputy | Vice President of Guatemala |
Salary | 146,950 GTQ monthly ($19,742 as of May 2018)[1] |
Website | http://www.presidencia.gob.gt/ |
The President of Guatemala (Spanish: Presidente de Guatemala), officially known as the President of the Republic of Guatemala (Spanish: Presidente de la República de Guatemala), is the head of state and head of government of Guatemala, elected to a single four-year term. The position of President was created in 1839.
According to article 185 of the constitution, the following is required to be president:
Under article 186, relatives of the incumbent president or vice president are not allowed to run in the succeeding election.
According to article 183 of the constitution, the following duties and competences are conferred to the president:
No. | Portrait | Name | Term of office | Political party | ||
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Took office | Left office | Time in Office | ||||
1 | Alejandro Diaz Cabeza de Vaca
(Provisional) |
15 September 1824 | 12 October 1824 | 3 weeks,
6 days |
Conservative | |
2 | Juan Nepomuceno Barrundia Cepeda | 12 October 1824 | 9 September 1826 | 1 year,
10 months, 28 days |
Liberal | |
3 | Cirilo Flores
(Acting) |
9 September 1826 | 13 October 1826 | 1 month,
4 days |
N/A | |
4 | Jose Domingo Estrada
(Acting) |
2 January 1827 | 1 March 1827 | 1 Months,
30 days |
Conservative | |
5 | Mariano de Aycinena y Piñol | 1 March 1827 | 12 April 1829 | 2 years,
1 month, 11 days |
Conservative | |
6 | Mariano Zenteno
(Provisional) |
13 April 1829 | 30 April 1829 | 2 weeks,
3 days |
Conservative | |
7 | Juan Nepomuceno Barrundia y Cepeda | 30 April 1829 | 23 August 1829 | 3 months,
24 days |
Liberal | |
8 | Pedro Molina Mazariegos | 23 August 1829 | 10 February 1831 | 1 years,
5 months, 18 days |
Liberal | |
9 | José Gregorio Márquez
(Acting) |
10 February 1831 | 28 August 1831 | 6 months,
18 days |
N/A | |
10 | Mariano Gálvez | 28 August 1831 | 3 March 1838 | 6 years,
6 months, 6 days |
Liberal | |
11 | Pedro José Valenzuela y Jáuregui
(Acting) |
3 March 1838 | 29 July 1838 | 4 months,
26 days |
N/A | |
12 | Mariano Rivera Paz
(Acting (1st time)) |
29 July 1838 | 30 January 1839 | 6 months,
1 days |
Liberal | |
13 | Carlos Salazar Castro
(Provisional) |
30 January 1839 | 13 April 1839 | 2 months,
14 days |
N/A | |
14 | Mariano Rivera Paz
(Acting (2nd time)) |
13 April 1839 | 3 December 1839 | 7 months,
20 days |
Liberal |
No. | Portrait | Name (Birth-Death) |
Elected | Term of office | Political party | ||
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Took office | Left office | Time in office | |||||
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Mariano Rivera Paz (1804-1849) |
-- | 3 December 1839 | 25 February 1842 | 2 years, 84 days | Conservative |
2 | ![]() |
José Venancio López (1791-1863) Acting Head of State |
-- | 25 February 1842 | 14 May 1842 | 78 days | Liberal |
3 | ![]() |
Mariano Rivera Paz (1804-1849) |
-- | 14 May 1842 | 14 December 1844 | 2 years, 214 days | Conservative |
4 | ![]() |
Rafael Carrera (1814-1865) |
-- | 14 December 1844 | 16 August 1848 | 3 years, 246 days | Conservative |
5 | ![]() |
Juan Antonio Martínez (?-1854) Acting |
-- | 16 August 1848 | 28 November 1848 | 104 days | Conservative |
6 | ![]() |
José Bernardo Escobar (1797-1849) Acting |
-- | 28 November 1848 | 1 January 1849 | 34 days | Conservative |
7 | ![]() |
Mariano Peredes (1800-1856) Acting |
-- | 1 January 1849 | 6 November 1851 | 2 years, 309 days | Independent |
8 | ![]() |
Rafael Carrera (1814-1865) |
-- | 6 November 1851 | 14 April 1865 | 13 years, 159 days | Conservative |
9 | ![]() |
Pedro de Aycinena y Piñol (1802-1897) Acting |
-- | 14 April 1865 | 24 May 1865 | 40 days | Conservative |
10 | ![]() |
Vicente Cerna Sandoval (1815-1885) |
-- | 24 May 1865 | 29 June 1871 | 6 years, 36 days | Conservative |
11 | ![]() |
Miguel García Granados (1809-1878) |
-- | 29 June 1871 | 4 June 1873 | 1 year, 340 days | Liberal |
12 | ![]() |
Justo Rufino Barrios (1835-1885) |
1873 1880 |
4 June 1873 | 2 April 1885 | 11 years, 302 days | Liberal |
13 | ![]() |
Alejandro M. Sinibaldi (1825-1896) Acting |
-- | 2 April 1885 | 5 April 1885 | 3 days | Liberal |
14 | ![]() |
Manuel Barillas (1845-1907) |
-- | 6 April 1885 | 15 March 1892 | 6 years, 345 days | Liberal |
15 | ![]() |
José María Reina Barrios (1854-1898) |
1892 | 15 March 1892 | 8 February 1898 | 5 years, 330 days | Liberal |
16 | ![]() |
Manuel Estrada Cabrera (1857-1924) |
1898 1904 1910 1916 |
8 February 1898 | 15 April 1920 | 22 years, 67 days | Liberal |
17 | ![]() |
Carlos Herrera (1856-1930) |
1920 1920 |
15 April 1920 | 10 December 1921 | 1 year, 239 days | Unionist Party |
18 | ![]() |
José María Orellana (1872-1926) |
1921 1922 |
10 December 1921 | 26 September 1926 | 4 years, 290 days | Liberal |
19 | ![]() |
Lázaro Chacón González (1873-1931) |
1926 | 26 September 1926 | 12 December 1930 | 4 years, 98 days | Unionist Party |
-- | ![]() |
Baudilio Palma (1880-1930) Acting |
-- | 13 December 1930 | 17 December 1930 | 4 days | Conservative |
-- | ![]() |
Manuel María Orellana Contreras (1870-1940) De facto |
-- | 17 December 1930 | 2 January 1931 | 16 days | Liberal |
20 | ![]() |
José María Reina Andrade (1860-1947) Acting |
-- | 2 January 1931 | 14 February 1931 | 43 days | Liberal |
21 | ![]() |
Jorge Ubico (1878-1946) |
1931 | 14 February 1931 | 1 July 1944 | 13 years, 138 days | Progressive Liberal Party |
22 | ![]() |
Juan Federico Ponce Vaides (1889-1956) Acting |
-- | 1 July 1944 | 20 October 1944 | 111 days | Progressive Liberal Party |
23 | ![]() |
Revolutionary Government Junta | - | 20 October 1944 | 15 March 1945 | 146 days | Military |
24 | ![]() |
Juan José Arévalo (1904-1990) |
1944 | 15 March 1945 | 15 March 1951 | 6 years | Revolutionary Action Party |
25 | ![]() |
Jacobo Árbenz (1913-1971) |
1950 | 15 March 1951 | 27 June 1954 (Deposed) |
3 years, 104 days | Revolutionary Action Party / Party of the Guatemalan Revolution |
26 | ![]() |
Carlos Enrique Díaz de León (1915-2014) Provisional President |
-- | 27 June 1954 | 29 June 1954 | 2 days | Military |
27 | ![]() |
Elfego Hernán Monzón Aguirre (1912-1981) Chairman of Military Junta |
- | 29 June 1954 | 8 July 1954 | 9 days | Military |
28 | ![]() |
Carlos Castillo Armas (1914-1957) |
1954 | 8 July 1954 | 26 July 1957 | 3 years, 18 days | National Liberation Movement |
29 | ![]() |
Luis Arturo González López (1900-1965) Acting |
- | 27 July 1957 | 24 October 1957 | 89 days | Independent |
30 | ![]() |
Óscar Mendoza Azurdia (1917-1995) Chairman of Military Junta |
-- | 24 October 1957 | 26 October 1957 | 2 days | Military |
31 | ![]() |
Guillermo Flores Avendaño (1894-1982) Acting |
-- | 26 October 1957 | 2 March 1958 | 129 days | Military |
32 | ![]() |
Miguel Ydígoras Fuentes (1895-1982) |
1958 | 2 March 1958 | 31 March 1963 (Deposed) |
5 years, 29 days | Military / REDENCION |
33 | ![]() |
Enrique Peralta Azurdia (1908-1997) |
-- | 31 March 1963 | 1 July 1966 | 3 years, 92 days | Institutional Democratic Party |
34 | ![]() |
Julio César Méndez Montenegro (1915-1996) |
1966 | 1 July 1966 | 1 July 1970 | 4 years | Revolutionary Party |
35 | ![]() |
Carlos Manuel Arana Osorio (1918-2003) |
1970 | 1 July 1970 | 1 July 1974 | 4 years | Institutional Democratic Party |
36 | ![]() |
Kjell Eugenio Laugerud García (1930-2009) |
1974 | 1 July 1974 | 1 July 1978 | 4 years | Institutional Democratic Party |
37 | ![]() |
Fernando Romeo Lucas García (1924-2006) |
1978 | 1 July 1978 | 23 March 1982 | 3 years, 265 days | Institutional Democratic Party |
38 | ![]() |
Efraín Ríos Montt (1926-2018) |
-- | 23 March 1982 | 8 August 1983 | 1 year, 138 days | Military |
39 | ![]() |
Óscar Humberto Mejía Víctores (1930-2016) |
-- | 8 August 1983 | 14 January 1986 | 2 years, 159 days | Military |
40 | Vinicio Cerezo (born 1942) |
1985 | 14 January 1986 | 14 January 1991 | 5 years | Guatemalan Christian Democracy | |
41 | ![]() |
Jorge Serrano Elías (born 1945) |
1990 | 14 January 1991 | 1 June 1993 | 2 years, 138 days | Solidarity Action Movement |
42 | ![]() |
Gustavo Adolfo Espina Salguero (born 1946) Acting |
-- | 1 June 1993 | 5 June 1993 | 4 days | Solidarity Action Movement |
43 | ![]() |
Ramiro de León Carpio (1942-2002) |
1993 | 6 June 1993 | 14 January 1996 | 2 years, 222 days | Independent |
44 | ![]() |
Álvaro Arzú (1946-2018) |
1995-96 | 14 January 1996 | 14 January 2000 | 4 years | National Advancement Party / Unionist Party |
45 | ![]() |
Alfonso Portillo (born 1951) |
1999 | 14 January 2000 | 14 January 2004 | 4 years | Guatemalan Republican Front |
46 | ![]() |
Óscar Berger (born 1946) |
2003 | 14 January 2004 | 14 January 2008 | 4 years | National Solidarity Party / Grand National Alliance |
47 | ![]() |
Álvaro Colom (born 1951) |
2007 | 14 January 2008 | 14 January 2012 | 4 years | National Unity of Hope |
48 | ![]() |
Otto Pérez Molina (born 1950) |
2011 | 14 January 2012 | 3 September 2015 | 3 years, 232 days | Patriotic Party / Grand National Alliance |
49 | ![]() |
Alejandro Maldonado (born 1936) Acting |
-- | 3 September 2015 | 14 January 2016 | 133 days | Independent |
50 | ![]() |
Jimmy Morales (born 1969) |
2015 | 14 January 2016 | 14 January 2020 | 4 years | National Convergence Front |
51 | ![]() |
Alejandro Giammattei (born 1956) |
2019 | 14 January 2020 | Incumbent | 1 year, 5 days | Vamos |
Candidate | Party | First round | Second round | |||||
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Votes | % | Votes | % | |||||
Alejandro Giammattei | Vamos | 613,302 | 13.95 | 1,907,696 | 57.95 | |||
Sandra Torres | National Unity of Hope | 1,122,630 | 25.54 | 1,384,005 | 42.05 | |||
Edmond Mulet | Humanist Party of Guatemala | 492,799 | 11.21 | |||||
Thelma Cabrera | Movement for the Liberation of Peoples | 455,874 | 10.37 | |||||
Roberto Arzú | National Advancement Party-Podemos | 267,256 | 6.08 | |||||
Isaac Farchi | Vision with Values | 259,288 | 5.90 | |||||
Manuel Villacorta | Winaq | 229,466 | 5.22 | |||||
Estuardo Galdámez | National Convergence Front | 180,983 | 4.12 | |||||
Julio Héctor Estrada | Commitment, Renewal and Order | 164,722 | 3.75 | |||||
Fredy Cabrera | Todos | 137,769 | 3.13 | |||||
Amílcar Rivera | Victoria | 111,734 | 2.54 | |||||
Pablo Ceto | Guatemalan National Revolutionary Unity | 94,810 | 2.16 | |||||
Pablo Duarte | Unionist Party | 63,018 | 1.43 | |||||
Manfredo Marroquín | Encuentro por Guatemala | 50,298 | 1.14 | |||||
Aníbal García | Libre | 41,672 | 0.95 | |||||
Benito Morales | Convergence | 37,724 | 0.86 | |||||
Luis Velásquez | Unidos | 26,990 | 0.61 | |||||
José Luis Chea Urruela | Productivity and Work Party | 23,893 | 0.54 | |||||
Danilo Roca | Avanza | 21,179 | 0.48 | |||||
Invalid/blank votes | 667,460 | - | - | |||||
Total | 5,062,867 | 100 | 3,291,701 | 100 | ||||
Registered voters/turnout | 8,150,221 | 62.12 | 40.39 | |||||
Source: Supreme Electoral Tribunal (both rounds preliminaries, 99% counted) |
Vinicio Cerezo, 1986-1991
Jorge Serrano Elías, 1991-1993
Alfonso Portillo, 2000-2004
Óscar Berger, 2004-2008
Álvaro Colom, 2008-2012
Otto Pérez Molina, 2012-2015
Alejandro Maldonado, 2015-2016
Jimmy Morales, 2016-2020