The office of President of Guatemala 

Chief of State: President Jimmy Ernesto MORALES* 

Head of Government: President Jimmy Ernesto MORALES* 

Assembly: Guatemala has a unicameral Congress of the Republic (Congreso de la República) with 160 seats. 

The President is elected by absolute majority vote through a two-round system to serve one four-year term. If no candidate wins more than 50 percent of the votes in the first round, the top two candidates go to a second round. 

Sandra TORRES 

• Party: National Unity of Hope / Unidad Nacional de la Esparanza (UNE) 

Alejandro GIAMMATTEI 

• Party: Let’s Go for a Different Guatemala / Vamos por una Guatemala Diferente (Vamos) 

Edwin ESCOBAR 

• Party: Citizen’s Prosperity / Prosperidad Cuidadana 

Mario ESTRADA 

• Party: Union for National Change / Unión del Cambio Nacional (UCN) 

Julio Héctor ESTRADA 

• Party: Commitment, Renewal, and Order / Compromiso, Renovación y Orden (CREO) 

Roberto ARZÚ 

• Party: Party of National Advancement / Partido de Avanzada Nacional (PAN) 

Edmond MULET ​

• Party: Humanist Party / Partido Humanista 

Population: 17,577,842 (2019 est.)  

Registered Voters: 8,149,793 (as of March 2019)

Female Population: 8,922,811 (2019 est.)  

Is Guatemala a signatory to CEDAW: Yes (8 June 1981) 

Has Guatemala ratified CEDAW: Yes (12 August 1982)  

Gender Quota: No 

Female Candidates in this election: Yes 

Number of Female Legislators: 21 (13%) of 158 seats in the Congress of the Republic 

Human Development Index (HDI) Position: 127 (2018) 

Social Institutions and Gender Index (SIGI) Categorization: Low (2019) 

Is Guatemala a signatory to CRPD: Yes (30 March 2007) 

Has Guatemala ratified CRPD: Yes (7 April 2009)  

Population with a disability: 2,237,850 (est.)