The Democratic Union (''Unión Democrática'') was a

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Guatemala Guatemala, officially the Republic of Guatemala, is a country in Central America. It is bordered to the north and west by Mexico, to the northeast by Belize, to the east by Honduras, and to the southeast by El Salvador. It is hydrologically b ...

. At the

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, 9 November 2003, the party won 2.2% of the popular vote and 2 out of 158 seats. In the

held on 9 September 2007, the party secured 1.41% of the votes in the race for national-list deputies and, save for defections, will have only one seat in the 2008–2012 Congress. In the presidential election of the same day, its candidate Manuel Conde Orellana won 0.76% of the popular vote.

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