Word: valos
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...winners was the center-left Christian Democratic Party, led by Vinicio Cerezo Arévalo, 41, which captured 22 Assembly seats. Tied for first place was the moderate Union of the National Center, led by Jorge Carpio Nicolle, 51. Guatemala's traditional ultrarightist party, the Movement of National Liberation, took 21 seats. Both Cerezo and Carpio predicted that they could fashion a majority by making deals with some of the 14 other parties in the contest...
...already weak opposition by allowing minor civic committees to compete with existing political parties. He also abolished the Council of State, a relatively ineffectual body that had the merit of including representatives of the country's 4.7 million Indians. Says Christian Democratic Leader Vinicio Cerezo Arévalo: "The military can accept the democratic process, but not the loss of power...