Search

The Online Encyclopedia and Dictionary

 
     
 

Encyclopedia

Dictionary

Quotes

 

Congress of Guatemala

The Congress of the Republic (Spanish: Congreso de la República) is the unicameral legislature of the Republic of Guatemala.

It comprises 140 deputies, who are elected by direct universal suffrage to serve four-year terms. (Prior to the election of the current Congress, there were only 113 deputies.)

The last election was held on 9 November 2003; see Guatemala election, 2003. Following this election, party strengths within Congress stand as follows:

Guatemala also returns deputies to the supranational Central American Parliament.

See also

The contents of this article are licensed from Wikipedia.org under the GNU Free Documentation License. How to see transparent copy