Document #1145601
IRB – Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada (Author)
Reports of electoral results of the last
decade currently available to the IRBDC do not provide specific
information on the district of Chiquimulas. However, as indicated
in the Response to Information Request 7788, one source states that
the Congressional Deputy for Chiquimulas during the last government
(1986-1990) was Obdulio Chinchilla Vega of the Revolutionary Party
(Partido Revolucionario, PR).
Various sources indicate that federal
elections for President, Vice-President and Congressional Deputies
took place in Guatemala in late-1985 and late-1990. Municipal
elections, however, took place on 24 April 1988. Results of the
1985 federal elections (percentage of votes by party for
Presidential Candidates and number of Congressional seats won by
each party) can be found among sources available at your Regional
Documentation Centre, such as the Europa Year Book of recent
years. Please find attached to this response an article giving the
preliminary results of the 271 municipal elections which took place
on 24 April 1988 ("DC stays ahead in local elections", Central
America Report, 29 April 1988, pp. 124-125). According to this
attachment, the Christian Democrat party won 140 municipal seats,
while the National Liberation Movement (MLN) won 12. The source
indicates, however, that the National Liberation Movement won 32
other municipal seats running as part of a coalition of seven
parties.