2026 is a pre-electoral year in which the different political parties that hope to participate in the 2027 elections have begun to carry out their first activities, with the aim of consolidating their leadership in the general secretariats, as well as their candidates who will be participating for different public and popularly elected positions, such as president and vice president, mayors, deputies to Congress and deputies to the Central American Parliament (Parlacen).
From that account, In Congress, several deputies have begun to make their respective movements, with the intention of re-electing themselveseither with their current parties or with other political groups. There are even those who are betting on the formation of new forces to run, either as deputies or as mayors and even for the Presidency.
This “pre-electoral” work by the deputies will intensify in the coming days, because the first regular period in Congress will end on May 15, giving way to the extraordinary period that will last until July 31, during which time the deputies will carry out this type of activities, because several political parties will hold their national assemblies in the coming months.
Moves and additions
So far this year, several groups have held their respective national assemblies to define their leadership in the different regions of the country. In these activities, dissident deputies from other parties have been presented, who hope to be “re-elected” for a new period in Congress.
The Victoria party held its national assembly in February, in which it elected Abraham Rivera Sagastume as general secretary. During the activity Representative Vivian Preciado Navajo was presented as a new member, representing San Marcos, who seeks re-election. The mayor of La Blanca, San Marcos, Edilma Navajo, mother of the deputy, was also presented. It should be noted that Victoria is the third party in which Navarijo is a member, since in the ninth legislature she was elected by the canceled Unión del Cambio Nacional (UCN) party and in the current legislature she was re-elected with the Podemos party, from which she was expelled.
That same month, the Elephant Community party also held its national assembly, in which Hugo Peña was elected general secretary. in the activity Congresswoman Alexandra Ajcip Canel, who was elected with the political group, was absent. However, a few days ago it was learned that the congresswoman will now be part of the National Welfare (Bien) party, with which she will seek re-election as a deputy representing the municipalities of the department of Guatemala, as announced by the group on its social networks. This would be the third party in which the congresswoman is active, who came to Congress for the first time in the ninth legislature with the support of the Vision with Values (Viva) party.
In March, the Blue Party held its national assembly, where deputies from both the group and theas elected by other groups in the current legislature. One of them is the deputy César Dávila, elected by the Bien party and who was later declared an independent deputy. The big absentee in this assembly was the former president and current first vice president of the Legislature, Nery Ramos, who was elected to represent the department of Jutiapa with said party in the 2023 general elections.
New groups
In addition to the political parties that are registered in the Supreme Electoral Tribunal (TSE) and that already have representation in Congress, they also There are deputies who hope to consolidate their “leadership” with new groups.
one of them is Nery Ramos, who, as indicated, his absence in the national assembly of the Blue Party It was due to the fact that, together with other deputies, he is forming a “new political project”, which he claims he has been asked to “lead” with a view to the 2027 elections.
“I have made a decision with my work team to build a new political project at the national level and that is what we have been doing with different deputies who have asked me to join this political project and have asked me to lead this political project at the national level,” said Ramos.
He also indicated that departmental assemblies will be held by the party’s pro-formation committee and that the name of this new political group will be announced when the national assembly is held in the capital city, which is scheduled in a few weeks.
Another of the parties that hopes to consolidate during the 2027 elections is the Raíces party in formation, made up of several deputies and some leaders of the canceled Semilla Movement party and headed by deputy Samuel Pérez, along with other deputies elected by Semilla. Pérez affirmed that they continue to advance in the affiliation process to achieve the registration of the party before the Supreme Electoral Tribunal and participate in the next elections.
“We are really going very well. We are advancing even before the times we had estimated at the time of the public release, which was approximately a year ago. There are teams throughout the country and the truth is that we see with great enthusiasm the energy that is being recovered in favor of the democratic forces,” he says.
Regarding whether deputy José Carlos Sanabria and other deputies from Semilla’s conservative line would join the groupthis due to the existing differences between the two factions, Pérez commented that “they keep the doors open”, but that it is a decision that corresponds to the deputies.
When approached on this topic, Deputy José Carlos Sanabria indicated that “I would prefer to talk about this on another occasion.”
There are no solid blocks
In the opinion of Cristhians Castillo, an analyst at the Institute of National Problems of the University of San Carlos (Ipnusac), the search for the individual re-election of deputies further fragments the legislative dynamics, which means that there are no “solid” legislative blocksbut interest groups, since each deputy negotiates his vote in the chamber “thinking about his political future” and not about the common good.
“It seems to me that the biggest concern is that there are not legislative blocks, but rather interest groups negotiating votes, negotiating agendas, within the Legislature, and then that puts a particular pressure when the pressures of the electoral year begin to force some of these actors – deputies – to think about their re-election more than about social benefit,” he says.