Guatemala

Population Statistics

14,918,999

Total Population

2,237,850

Population with a disability

according to World Health Organization’s 15% estimate

Election Dates

07 April 2009

Ratified the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities


Political Constitution of the Republic of Guatemala (1985, last amended 1993)

Updated: June 2015

Article 165 states:

The Congress will have the power to do the following:…

  • (i) To declare, through the vote of two-thirds of the total number of deputies who make up the Congress, the physical or mental incapacity of the President of the Republic for the exercise of his duties. The declaration must be based on the opinion before hand of a committee of five physicians appointed by the Directive Board of the Association following the request of Congress…

 

Article 189 states:

In case of the temporary or definitive incapacity of the President of the Republic, he will be replaced by the Vice President. If the incapacity is definitive, the Vice President will assume the functions of the Presidency until the termination of the constitutional term, and in case of the definitive incapacity of both, the person appointed by the Congress of the Republic will complete the said term following the favorable vote of two-thirds of the total number of deputies.

 

Article 192 states:

In case of the definitive impediment of the Vice President of the Republic or the resignation of same, he will be replaced by the person designated by the Congress of the Republic, selecting him from a list of three proposed by the President of the Republic; in such cases, the replacement will function until the end of the term with equal functions and privileges.

 

Article 214 states:

…In the case of the temporary incapacity [falta] of the President of the Judicial Organism or when in accordance with the law he is unable to act or take cognizance of specified cases, the other judges of the Supreme Court of Justice will replace him, in the order of their designation.

 

Article 233 states:
The head of the Office of the Comptroller General of Accounts will be elected for a term of four years by the Congress of the Republic, by an absolute majority of the total number of deputies that make up this Organism. He can only be removed by the Congress of the Republic in cases of negligence, crime, or mental incompetence [falta de idoneidad]. He will make a report of his management to the Congress of the Republic, whenever requested to do so and officially [de oficio] twice a year. He will enjoy equal immunities as the magistrates of the Court of Appeals. In no case can the Comptroller General of Accounts be re-elected….

 

Excerpts from the Political Constitution of the Republic of Guatemala (1985, last amended 1993)