GUATEMALAN ELECTION RESULTS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R016300330009-0
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 18, 2003
• Sequence Number: 9
• Publication Date: January 30, 1953
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
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SUBJECT Oiatem.,lan Election Results
ION REPORT REPORT NO.
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CLASSIFICATION
DATE OF
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PLACE
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COUNTRY f uatemal.a.
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THIS DOCUMENT CONTAINS INFORMATION AFFECTING THE NATIONAL DEFENSE
OIN THE MEA NING OF TITLE SECTIONS 793
TION OF ITS CONTENTS TO OR RECEAN UNAUTHORIZED PERSON IS
HIBITED BY LAW. THE REPRODUCTION OF THIS FORM IS PROHIBITED.
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here is a, possibility that soiree minor changes may take place as a result
of allegations of fraud and the it t.x?p of the m yr?f t rep es enta. --
g ion provisions of the B' e o tonal. Lao v o
The Department of Guatemala voted almost two to one for the anti.-Cor m.;xnist
ticket against: Jose Marcel FORTUNY, who was not electedo Carlos Manuel
PET,LECERI, howevern was elected in Escu,zntla<
If no changes are made. the new Congress of 56 deputies 1.l` be PAR- 22~
PAR Dissidents- try who may join one of the other pro-government pa tsies
PRG- 16; PRN- 7., the Communist PGTs )+- and the anti Communjsts: 56
1o Based on an unofficial count of the National Electoral Council, out, of
thirty-two Deputy seats to he filled in the Guatemalan Congress, prow
government parties elected 29'as follows.- Partido Acc on Revolu . ovx a
(PAR).- 12; PAR Dissidents: 2; Partido de is' RevoInci.on Guatemalteca
(PFtG)- 10; Partido Renovacjcn Na,'9..onal (PRN)a 2.; the Communist partido
Guatemalte a del. Trabajc (PGT)o 10 The ant: --Communist opposition ele,c-fed
3 as follows: Partido Un.if'icacion Ant .convinista (PUA)- '; Comite Civico
Nacional (CCN) ? 1.; Part;ide ,;,ndependiente Anti-Corm nf:s t,a Oriental (PIACO) :
to
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to Cc~Ymztr x~ ; s: The ant,,!-Communist popular voting strength was
actually m).e : a;te.r than is 'indicated by the number of deputies
elected.
DATE DISTR. 30 January 1953
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SUPPLEMENT TO
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THIS IS UNEVALUATED INFORMATION
STATE
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