Voting from Abroad Database

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Guatemala

Year	Election type	Voting method	First year	Comments
2016	Presidential	Personal	2019	New regulation (Decreto Número 26-2016) officially allows overseas voting in Guatemala for the election of the President and Vice-President. For the first time in the country’s history, Guatemalans who reside abroad were allowed to vote in the 2019 Presidential Elections.
2012	No external voting	No external voting	Not applicable	Although some proposals have been submitted and discussed by the Congress in the last few years, none has been passed so far (research was conducted in 2012).