The Social Action Centre (''Centro de Acción Social'') was a
political party
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in
Guatemala
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. In the
legislative
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elections
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held on 9 September 2007, the party secured 4.89% of the votes in the race for national-list deputies and had five seats in the 2008-12 Congress. In the presidential election of the same day, its candidate
Eduardo Suger
Eduardo Suger Cofiño (November 29, 1938) is a Swiss-born Guatemalan physicist, scholar, educator, and politician. He is one of the founders of Galileo University in Guatemala City and of the Suger Montano Institute. Suger was the first Central ...
won 7.45% of the popular vote.
In the legislative elections held on September 11, 2011, CASA secured 47,390 votes (1.08% of the total) in the race for national-list deputies and, save for defections, had no representation in the 2012-16 Congress. In the presidential election held on the same day, its candidate
Alejandro Giammattei
Alejandro Eduardo Giammattei Falla (; born 9 March 1956) is a Guatemalan politician who was the 51st president of Guatemala from 2020 to 2024.
He is a former director of the Guatemalan penitentiary system and participated in Guatemala's presid ...
received 46,395 votes (1.04%).
Having failed to secure the minimum of 5% of the popular vote or one seat in Congress, CASA forfeited its registration as a party.
Conservative parties in Guatemala
Defunct political parties in Guatemala
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