Grand National Alliance
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The Grand National Alliance (Gran Alianza Nacional, GANA) is a political party in Guatemala. The acronym "GANA" also spells out the word gana, from the verb ganar, "to win".
[edit] Formation and 2003 election
GANA was created as an electoral alliance to fight the 2003 general election. In that election, held on 9 November 2003, the Grand National Alliance, won 24.3% of the vote, and 47 out of 158 seats in Congress. The presidential candidate of the alliance, Óscar Berger Perdomo, won 34.3% at the presidential elections of the same day. He won 54.1% at the second round and was elected president.
The alliance was made up of the following parties:
- Patriotic Party (Partido Patriota) (PP)
- Reform Movement (Movimiento Reformador) (MR)
- National Solidarity Party (Partido Solidaridad Nacional) (PSN)
[edit] Evolution and 2007 election
The Patriotic Party broke with the alliance in the early months of Óscar Berger's administration. [1] In November 2005, the National Solidarity Party ceded its electoral registration to GANA, with which the Grand National Alliance ceased to be an alliance and became a party. In August 2006, the Reform Movement withdrew its support from GANA. [2]
GANA's candidate in the 2007 presidential election was former director of the national prison service Alejandro Giammattei. He came in third place in the election, with 17% of the vote. Despite the splits in the party, it did relatively well in the congressional elections, receiving 37 seats and becoming the second largest party in Congress.
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