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guatemala**

H.E. Lic. Julio René Solórzano Barrios,
Chairperson, TSE

PArt i 11. Language (s)
Spanish (official)
CoUNtrY ProfiLE
12. Literacy Levels
81.29%
1. Country Name
GUATEMALA PArt ii
2. Official Name LEgisLAtivE sYstEM
Republic of Guatemala

3. Government LEGISLATURE
Presidential Republic
1. Structure of National Legislature
4. Head of the Government Unicameral
President – Alejandro Giammattei
2. Names of the Houses in vernacular and English
5. Head of the State Congreso de la Republica
President – Alejandro Giammattei
3. Total no. of members in each house elected/
6. Capital nominated
Guatemala City 158 members of the Congreso de la Republica
(Congress of the Republic) are elected through
7. Currency closed-list proportional representation system
Guatemalan quetza
4. Popular House
8. Ethnic Groups (with %age population) Congreso de la Republica
mestizo (mixed Amerindian-Spanish - in local
Spanish called Ladino) and European 60.1%, Maya 5. Type of Electoral System
39.3% (K’iche 11.3%, Q’eqchi 7.6%, Kaqchikel 7.4%, Party-list proportional representation
Mam 5.5%, other 7.5%), non-Maya, non-mestizo PArt iii
0.15% (Xinca (indigenous, non-Maya), Garifuna
(mixed West and Central African, Island Carib, and ELECtorAL sYstEM
Arawak)), other 0.5% (2001 est.)

9. Date of Independence and from which Country (A) ELECTION MANAGEMENT BODy
15 September 1821 (from Spain)
1. Name of the EMB(S)
10. Date of adoption of Democratic Constitution Tribunal Supremo Electoral (TSE) (Supreme
14 January 1986 Electoral Tribunal)

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