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Guatemalan Government The Guatemalan government is very fun and interesting to learn about. Guatemala became a democracy in 1985. Their current President is Alvaro Colom Caballeros. In Guatemala if you want to vote for the president you have to be 18 years old to vote except if you are in active service in the military. The Guatemalan government like the United States government have three branches. The legislative, the Executive, and the Judicial branches. The Guatemalan government wrote a constitution that increased the number of supreme court justices from 9 to 13 and it stated that a president should serve for only 4 years not 5. If you were the vice president in Guatemala you could not run for president until four years after you were done being vice president. I hope you learned a lot.

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