2023-04-28 06:04:00
The mayor of the municipality of Santa Catarina Pinula, Guatemala, Sebastian Siero Asturias32, was one of the first candidates to be registered for that position seeking re-election in the Guatemalan elections 2023.
The favorable resolution of the payroll of the municipal corporation of the Valor-Unionist coalition It was issued by the Registry of Citizens of the Supreme Electoral Court (SEC).), on January 30, 2023, with Siero at the helm.
It is the same political organization with which he won the mayoralty in the 2019 elections, with 10,041 votes in his favor.
The edile projects that he contemplates to extend his mandate will be disclosed as of March 27, when the electoral campaign officially begins, according to Siero, who is the nephew of the former Minister of the Interior, Enrique Degenhart, who will also run for a popularly elected position in the Congress of the Republic with the Valor-Unionista coalition.
In the political contest in that municipality, the former mayor also sought to participate Víctor Alvarizaes Monterroso, which was postulated by the National Unity of Hope, but its registration was rejected by the TSE. He resolved the same with the incumbent councilor candidate I, Billy Barillas del Aguilabecause “both cases are included within the prohibitions of article 113 of the Constitution.
Candidates in Santa Catarina Pinula
1. Sebastian Siero Asturias
He was one of the first registered as a mayoral candidate. The current mayor will run with the same party with which he won the municipal elections, the Unionista party, but in a coalition with Valor.
2. Minor Orlando Cifuentes Barillas
On January 30, he was also registered as a candidate for the cabal party, Minor Orlando Cifuentes Barrels, who is running for the mayor of Santa Catarina Pinula for the first time. Cifuentes Barillas is the first councilor of the current administration and was the sixth councilor when Víctor Alvarizaes directed that commune. He also served as assistant mayor in the Don Justo adela, coordinator of the Community Councils for Urban and Rural Development, as well as the Potable Water Association.
3. Diluvina Katiuska Velasco Iraheta
On January 27, the Citizens Registry registered the candidate for mayor of the party Let’s go, Diluvina Katiuska Velasco Iraheta, who in her Facebook profile identifies herself as a “mother and woman from Pinulte, a believer in God”.
4. Donald Aquiles Barillas Contreras
On March 1 he was registered Donald Aquiles Barillas Contreras, as a candidate for mayor, in his third attempt in an election. In 2023 he participates with the party Commitment, Renewal and Order (I think), as it did in 2015, while in 2019 it was with the Valor party. Barillas was also a deputy for the Guatemala district of the now-defunct Guatemalan Republican Front (FRG) party.
5. Leonardo González González
On February 24, he was registered as a mayoral candidate Leonardo Gonzalez Gonzalez with the party National Welfare (Good). In 2019 he ran with the Avanza party, led by Danilo Roca and whose political organization was canceled when it did not reach 5% of the minimum votes required by the Electoral and Political Parties Law in the 2019 General Elections.
6. Oliver Omar Lopez Montenegro
On February 24, 2023, he was registered Oliver Omar Lopez Montenegrowho for the second time participates in these elections with the Humanist Party. López Montenegro is a legal adviser and son of Eduardo López Montenegro, who led the Santa Catarina Pinula commune on two occasions.
7. Maria de Lourdes Garcia Alvarez
Since March 1, she has been registered as a candidate for mayor for the Republican Party, Maria de Lourdes Garcia Alvarezbetter known as “Lic. Lulu”, originally from the Cuchilla del Carmen village, in Santa Catarina Pinula. The lawyer and notary is the first time that she participates in a political contest, but with extensive political experience at the university level, specifically in the USAC.
8. Pablo Antonio Morales Lazaro
On March 2 he was registered Pablo Antonio Morales Lazaro for him Guatemalan Popular Partyheaded by mayor Neto Bran.
Morales is the second time that he has participated in the contest in that municipality. In 2019 he participated, but with the All party. He considers himself a committed person and, above all, with 20 years of experience as a public servant, especially due to his performance in the position as Municipal Manager of Mixco.
9. Allan Estuardo Paniagua Garcia
The candidate Allan Estuardo Paniagua Garcia for him party all was registered on March 20. Paniagua is an industrial engineer and it is the first time that he has participated in an election. He assured that the reason why he is seeking the mayoral chair in 2023 is “to prevent the same small group from continuing to administer the commune. I am 100% Pinulteco and it hurts me to see that the municipality is in the hands of people who are not from Santa Catarina Pinula and be an annex of the municipality of Guatemala,” he said.
10. Efrain Angel Matias Aguirre
The candidate Efrain Angel Matias Aguirre is the candidate for blue Party, was registered on March 30.
11. Santiago Carregal López
On March 30 he was registered Santiago Acabal Lopezas candidate for mayor of Santa Catarina Pinula by the Movement for the Liberation of the Peoples (MLP). It is his first participation as a candidate for mayor and he was a municipal collaborator from 2018 to 2021 in the commune for which he is now running in 2012.
12. Allan Kevin Moran Grijalva
The candidate of National Convergence Front (FCN-Nation) es Allan Kevin Moran Grijalva.
13. Manuel Enrique Polanco Sotoj
The candidate of party My Family es Manuel Enrique Polanco Sotoj.
14. Victor Alvarizaes
The candidate of the National Unit of Hope (UNE) is the former mayor Victor Alvarizaes, who seeks to return to the position he won in 2015 with the defunct Patriot Party (PP) and in 2019 was a candidate for the same position, but with the defunct Libertad Democrática Renovada (Lider) party. His registration remains firm by decision of the TSE, despite the fact that he has five open criminal proceedings, including the “Cambray case.”
15. Josué Daniel Ventura Chang
The candidate of Vision with Values party (Viva) is Josué Daniel Ventura Chang, who claims to have a firm commitment and a clear vision for the future of Santa Catarina Pinula. If he wins the mayoralty, he offers to focus on revolutionizing education, work and social welfare.
16. Jose Victor Figueroa Vasquez
Jose Victor Figueroa Vasquezwho has industrial engineering studies in Mexico, competes for the mayor’s chair with the party Us for the first time from where he hopes to support the elderly and improve the Pinulteco territory. “I live in the Santa Bárbara neighborhood, on the edge of one of the three ravines on which Santa Catarina Pinula is located, and my community has asked for support from the Tono Coro administration, but they have not received it,” he laments.
17. Juan Luis Ozaeta Monzón
Juan Luis Ozaeta Monzón is the candidate for Will, Opportunity, Solidarity party (VOS), who is seeking the position for the second time, after in 2019 he participated with the Libre party. He is a practicing dentist and practices alternative medicine. He was director of Public Relations of the Association of Naturists of Guatemala and founded Radio Universidad in the Usac. The reason he is running is to end the waste of public resources and his concern about the lack of drainage and potable water, he assured.
18. Francisco Paniagua Alvarez
The party’s candidate We can es Francisco Paniagua Alvarez.
*Updated on April 24
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