Guatemala in elections less than 15 hours after they take place, 9 million 361 thousand 068 Guatemalans will be able to go to the polls to elect the representatives of the more than four thousand public offices that are disputed this 2023.
Thus, tomorrow, June 25, the day of the general elections, registered Guatemalans will receive five ballots of different colors to vote for the political organizations that nominate candidates for the more than four thousand positions of popular election.
The members of the Vote Receiving Boards will deliver to the citizens five folded ballots, which contain the symbols of the political parties that nominate candidates for the Presidency of the Republic, to deputies to the Congress of the Republic and to the Central American Parliament ?Parlacen?.
In the case of municipal corporations, you will also find the symbols of the civic committees that presented candidacies in the municipalities.
The ballots have colors: white, green, light blue, pink and yellow.
With the white ballot, you vote for president and vice president; with green the 32 deputies to the Congress of the Republic who are postulated by National List are elected.
In the case of the pink ballot, the 340 municipal corporations are elected. In accordance with Decree 1-2023 of the General Call for Elections 2023, the mayor, three trustees, ten titular councilors, one substitute trustee and four substitute councilors are elected in municipalities with more than one hundred thousand inhabitants.
While with the yellow ballot you vote for the election of 20 deputies to Parlacen.
On the light blue ballot, 128 deputies to the Congress of the Republic are voted for the 23 electoral districts, that is, for each department of the country plus the central district that corresponds to the municipality of Guatemala.
They are divided as follows:
Central District (municipality of Guatemala): 11 deputies; District of Guatemala (remaining municipalities of the department): 19 deputies; Sacatepéquez: 3 deputies; Chimaltenango: 5 deputies; El Progreso: 2 deputies; Escuintla: 6 deputies; Santa Rosa: 3 deputies; Suchitepéquez: 5 deputies; Chiquimula: 3 deputies and Izabal: 3 deputies.
In addition, Retalhuleu: 3 deputies; Sololá: 3 deputies; Totonicapán: 4 deputies; Quetzaltenango: 7 deputies; San Marcos: 9 deputies; Huehuetenango: 10 deputies; Quiché: 8 deputies; Baja Verapaz: 2 deputies; Alta Verapaz: 9 deputies; Petén: 4 deputies; Jalapa: 3 deputies; Jutiapa: 4 deputies; and Zacapa: 2 deputies.
According to the Plenary of Magistrates of the Supreme Electoral Tribunal ?TSE?, the actions for the general elections of this June 25 are ready. He also explained that the Departmental and Municipal Electoral Boards and the Vote Receiving Boards were trained, and that 95 percent of their members participate for the first time to contribute to this event.
He specified that these elections guarantee inclusion in every sense, after more than 40 people with disabilities work in the Electoral Process Operations Center and that 375,000 ballots have been prepared in Braille system, in addition to the fact that preferential attention will be given in the voting centers.
This article was produced with the support of the organization Global Exchange in collaboration with Peninsula 360 Press.
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