Guatemalan presidential election, 1993

Indirect presidential elections were held in Guatemala on 5 June 1993. They were sparked by the 1993 Guatemalan constitutional crisis in which President Jorge Serrano Elías had attempted a self-coup. The result was a victory for Ramiro de León Carpio, who won unopposed in the second round of voting, whilst the army-backed Arturo Herbruger was elected vice-president.^[1]

Results

Candidate	Party	first round	second round
Ramiro de León Carpio	PAN-MAS-FRG-MLN	64	106
Arturo Herbruger Asturias	DCG-UCN	51	retired
Mario Quiñónez Amézquita	PAN	retired	retired
not vote		1	10
Total		116	116

References

1. Torres Rivas, Edelberto. 1996. “Guatemala: democratic governability.” Constructing democratic governance: Latin America and the Caribbean in the 1990s. 1996. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. Part IV. Pp. 58.

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