The National Convergence Front (Spanish: Frente de Convergencia Nacional, FCN–Nación) was a right-wing political party in Guatemala.[12]
National Convergence Front Frente de Convergencia Nacional | |
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President | Jimmy Morales |
General Secretary | Javier Alfonso Hernández Franco |
Founded | 7 January 2008 |
Dissolved | 8 January 2024[1] |
Ideology | Conservatism[2][3] Nationalism[4] Christian right[5][6][7] |
Political position | Right-wing[8][9][10] to far-right[11] |
Colors | Blue |
Seats in Congress | 0 / 160 |
Website | |
www.fcnnacion.com | |
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 | Candidate | First round | Second round | Status | |||
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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 |
Election | Votes | % | Seats | +/– | Status |
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2011 | 23,272 | 0.53 (#14) | 0 / 158 |
New | Extra-parliamentary |
2015 | 403,086 | 8.84 (#5) | 11 / 158 |
11 | Government |
2019 | 211,453 | 5.23 (#5) | 8 / 160 |
3 | External support |
2023 | 28,827 | 0.69 (#23) | 0 / 160 |
8 | Extra-parliamentary |