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• Costa Rica

• Cuba

• Dominican Republic

• El Salvador

• Guatemala

• Honduras

• Mexico

• Nicaragua

• Panama

• Puerto Rico

Welcome to the Regional Centre for Central America. This page is facilitated by IFE, an associated member of the ACE network. Here you will find updated information about the region, such as electoral news, case studies and election-related links.

To access this material, use the menus to the right. If you need information about other regions, select another Regional Centre from the drop-down menu on the left side.

Regional Election Spotlight

Forthcoming elections

2008

Dominican Republic

        | Presidential

May 16th

        | Runoff

(runoff, if necessary)

June 30th

Mexico

        | State Congress              and Municipalities

July 6th

Nayarit

        | State Congress

October 19th

Coahuila

        | Municipalities

October 5th

Guerrero

November 9th

Hidalgo

Nicaragua

        | Municipalities

Nicaragua is divided into 153 municipalities

November 2nd

Puerto Rico

        | Primaries

Democratic Party

June 1st

        | General

November 4th

Primaries 2008 in Puerto Rico

These elections took place on March 9th. 'Primaries' is a preliminary election in which the registered voters of a political party nominate candidates for office.

The local Puerto Rican political parties results for this election can be found here.

Runoff election in Guatemala

On November 4th, 2007 Guatemalan people cast their vote in a runoff election in order to elect the new President, in which participated Álvaro Colom (UNE) and Otto Pérez (Patriot Party). The turnout was low, around 50% of the registered voters.

More than 5.9 millions of electors had the opportunity to cast their votes during the polling day. However, only 2'895,613 citizens attended, being valid 2'743,798 votes.

Álvaro Colom of the National Unity of Hope (UNE) was declared the official victor next Monday with 53% of the valid votes cast.

Upcoming events

3er Diplomado de Geografía Electoral, política y territorio. Inicia el 28 de marzo y termina el 22 de agosto del 2008. Se impartirá en las instalaciones del Instituto de Geografía de la Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México. Para mayores informes haga click aquí.

México

México

XXII Conferencia del Protocolo de Tikal, del que forman parte las autoridades electorales de Centroamérica y el Caribe, se celebrará este año en Nicaragua en junio.

Nicaragua

XIV Conferencia del Protocolo de Quito, conformado por las autoridades electorales de América del Sur, tendrá lugar en junio en Argentina.

Argentina

Las autoridades electorales del continente, en el marco de la IX Conferencia de la Unión Interamericana de Organismos Electorales, se encontrarán en El Salvador en octubre.

El Salvador

Recent events

II Meeting of Young Parliamentarians from Latin America and the Caribbean

Mexico

The II Meeting of Young Parliamentarians from Latin America and the Caribbean, took place on March 27, 28 and 29 in Mexico City. It was addressed to young parliamentarians of the region between 18 and 36 years old, and in some cases even 40 years old. You can read the transcriptions of the news bulletin and speeches for the opening and closing ceremonies by clicking on the images kindly provided by the area of Communication of the Republic's Senate. You can read a preparatory document and the event's agenda here. (All documents are in Spanish)