Encuentro por Guatemala

Encounter for Guatemala Encuentro por Guatemala

Secretary-General	Nineth Montenegro
Founded	2007 (2007)
Ideology	Ethnic interests of the Indegenous, Social democracy
Political position	Centre-left
National affiliation	Vision with Values (VIVA)
Colors	Red and Green
Congress	7 / 158
Website
http://encuentro.gt/
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Encuentro por Guatemala ("EG") – a Spanish name variously translated as "Encounter for Guatemala" (for example, by the BBC^[1] and CNN^[2]), or as "Together for Guatemala" (Reuters^[3]) – is a Guatemalan political party; encuentro may also translate as "gathering", "meeting", or "union".

Its logo is a red circle with four green dots on its circumference, representing the coming together of the four peoples that make up the Guatemalan nationality: Mayas, Garifunas, Xincas and Ladinos.

2007 election

The party was founded in 2007, in the run-up to that year's 9 September general election. Its presidential candidate was Rigoberta Menchú, the Nobel Peace Prize-winning indigenous activist, running on a ticket with businessman Luis Fernando Montenegro as her vice-presidential hopeful. They secured 3.09% of the popular vote.

In the Congressional election held on the same day, the party fared somewhat better, receiving 6.17% of the popular vote, which was enough to secure them four national-list deputies in Congress for the 2008–12 legislative period: Armando Sánchez Gómez, Rodolfo Aníbal García, Nineth Montenegro and Otilia Lux. Subsequently, only Nineth Montenegro has remained with the party; the other three deputies have left Encounter for Guatemala to operate as independents. Rodolfo Aníbal García has since formed a new political party, the New Republic Movement (Movimiento Nueva República (MNR)). Rigoberta Menchú has gone on to form the Winaq political party. Both MNR and WInaq participated in the 2011 elections as part of the Broad Leftist Front (Frente Amplio de Izquierda).

2011 election

For the 2011 elections, Encuentro formed a political alliance with center-right VIVA, another political party; its presidential and vice-presidential candidates were Harold Caballeros and Efraín Medina, with party leader Nineth Montenegro leading the list of legislative candidates.

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Political parties in Guatemala

Parties in Congress	Renewed Democratic Liberty National Unity of Hope Todos Patriotic Party National Convergence Front National Change Union Commitment, Renewal and Order Unionist Party Vision with Values Encounter for Guatemala Convergence Winaq Guatemalan National Revolutionary Unity National Advancement Party Fuerza

Extra-parliamentary	Democratic Union Front for Democracy Grand National Alliance Institutional Republican Party Reform Movement Social Action Centre Victory

Defunct parties	New Nation Alternative

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