National Advancement Party

National Advancement Party
Partido de Avanzada Nacional
LeaderManuel Conde Orellana
FounderÁlvaro Arzú
Founded1989
Dissolved8 January 2024[1]
IdeologyConservatism[2]
Political positionRight-wing[3] to far-right[4]
ColorsYellow
Seats in Congress
0 / 160
Website
www.pan-gt.com

The National Advancement Party (Spanish: Partido de Avanzada Nacional) was a conservative political party in Guatemala. It was founded in 1989.

In the 1990 and 1995 elections its presidential candidate was Álvaro Arzú who won in 1995, becoming Guatemala's 32nd president (1996–2000). Óscar Berger ran as the party's presidential candidate in the 1999 Guatemalan General Election becoming the runner-up in 1999. After winning PAN’s presidential candidacy in late 2002, he was going to run as the party's presidential candidate in the 2003 Guatemalan General Election. However, internal divisions plagued the party and Óscar Berger decided to leave PAN and enter the second round of the 2003 presidential elections as the candidate for the Gran Alianza Nacional (GANA), an alliance of 3 parties including Partido Patriota (PP), Movimiento Reformador (MR) and Partido Solidaridad Nacional (PSN).

  1. ^ "¡Quedan fuera! TSE cancela 11 partidos políticos". Soy502 (in Spanish). 8 January 2024. Retrieved 8 January 2024.
  2. ^ Carmack, Robert M. (2008), "Perspectives on the Politics of Human Rights in Guatemala", Human Rights in the Maya Region: Global Politics, Cultural Contentions, and Moral Engagements, Duke University Press, p. 61
  3. ^ "La historia se repite: 28 partidos políticos en el horizonte". Soy502. 10 March 2015. Retrieved 19 January 2023.
  4. ^ "En desafío a las sentencias judiciales, los líderes del Congreso guatemaltecos impulsan un proyecto de ley de amnistía". Washington Office on Latin America (in Spanish). October 2, 2019.