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    "country": "GT",
    "country_name": "Guatemala",
    "date": "2027-08-22",
    "date_status": "tentative",
    "kind": "runoff",
    "conditional": "Held only if no presidential ticket wins at least half plus one of the valid votes on 27 Jun 2027; the two leading tickets then go to a second election 45 to 60 days later (LEPP art. 201). Congress and PARLACEN have no second round.",
    "timezone": "America/Guatemala",
    "status": "scheduled",
    "last_verified_at": "2026-09-25T08:50:20Z",
    "stale": false,
    "stale_reason": null,
    "provenance": {
      "from": "researcher agent 2026-09-25: AGN on the TSE preliminary schedule (30 Jun 2026); Ley Electoral y de Partidos Políticos (TSE 2023 compilation, via Wayback); trep.gt; Prensa Libre, La Hora and France 24 on the 2023 count and declarations",
      "licence": "CC BY 4.0 (Election Index)"
    },
    "url": "https://electionindex.org/election/guatemala-general-2027-r2",
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        "key": "guatemala-general-2027-r2/president",
        "name": "President and Vice President",
        "body": "head-of-state",
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        "polls_close_utc": "2027-08-23T00:00:00Z",
        "authority": {
          "id": "gt-tse",
          "name": "Supreme Electoral Tribunal",
          "name_local": "Tribunal Supremo Electoral",
          "role": "electoral-commission",
          "homepage": "https://www.tse.org.gt/",
          "results_index": "https://trep.gt/",
          "open_data": null
        },
        "status": "scheduled",
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        "final_expected": {
          "from": "2027-08-25T06:00:00Z",
          "by": "2027-09-12T05:59:59Z",
          "confidence": "precedent",
          "basis": "The TSE declares the validity of the presidential election and the winning ticket in a single resolution (LEPP art. 209), open to a nullity appeal (arts. 246-247) and to amparo (art. 248). 2023 precedent: runoff 20 Aug; the TSE declared the result on 28 Aug 2023, day 8 (France 24, 29 Aug 2023). Challenges went on after that: in Dec 2023 the Public Ministry called the election 'null and void' and the TSE answered that the results were 'validated, formalized and unchangeable' (France 24, 8 Dec 2023); the 2023 first-round declaration had been held up by a Constitutional Court amparo (Prensa Libre, 2 Jul 2023). To err late the window closes at the end of 11 Sep 2027 local, day 20. The new term starts 14 Jan 2028 (Prensa Libre, 24 Jan 2026)."
        },
        "stages": [
          {
            "stage": "election-night",
            "from": "2027-08-23T00:00:00Z",
            "by": "2027-08-24T05:59:59Z",
            "replacedAt": null,
            "confidence": "estimate",
            "citation": "LEPP art. 236: polls close at 18:00 local (UTC-6 with no DST, so 00:00 UTC). In 2023 the runoff TREP page opened 'a partir de las 18:00 horas (Hora Local) del día 20 de agosto de 2023' (trep.gt notice). The end of the window, end of 23 Aug local, is our estimate.",
            "source": null,
            "observedAt": null,
            "observedSource": null
          },
          {
            "stage": "final-result",
            "from": "2027-08-25T06:00:00Z",
            "by": "2027-09-12T05:59:59Z",
            "replacedAt": null,
            "confidence": "precedent",
            "citation": "The TSE declares the validity of the presidential election and the winning ticket in a single resolution (LEPP art. 209), open to a nullity appeal (arts. 246-247) and to amparo (art. 248). 2023 precedent: runoff 20 Aug; the TSE declared the result on 28 Aug 2023, day 8 (France 24, 29 Aug 2023). Challenges went on after that: in Dec 2023 the Public Ministry called the election 'null and void' and the TSE answered that the results were 'validated, formalized and unchangeable' (France 24, 8 Dec 2023); the 2023 first-round declaration had been held up by a Constitutional Court amparo (Prensa Libre, 2 Jul 2023). To err late the window closes at the end of 11 Sep 2027 local, day 20. The new term starts 14 Jan 2028 (Prensa Libre, 24 Jan 2026).",
            "source": null,
            "observedAt": null,
            "observedSource": null
          }
        ],
        "sources": [
          {
            "url": "https://trep.gt/",
            "role": "results-live",
            "kind": "results_index",
            "kindReason": "results host, but its root lists many elections",
            "resolvable": false,
            "origin": "race",
            "note": "TSE preliminary-results (TREP) portal. On 25 Sep 2026 it still showed the 2023 landing page, with buttons to primeraeleccion.trep.gt and segundaeleccion.trep.gt and a 2023 notice that the runoff page 'estará disponible a partir de las 18:00 horas (Hora Local)' on polling day. The TSE linked its 2023 TREP from its X account (@TSEGuatemala, 25 and 27 Jun 2023). Whether the 2027 TREP reuses this host is not announced yet. The TREP is a preliminary count, never the final result. tse.org.gt answered 403 to our fetcher on 25 Sep 2026, so no TSE page for the 2027 official results is listed.",
            "check": null
          },
          {
            "url": "https://agn.gt/tse-anuncia-que-elecciones-generales-de-guatemala-seran-el-27-de-junio-del-2027/",
            "role": "timetable",
            "kind": "other",
            "kindReason": "election page without a results marker",
            "resolvable": false,
            "origin": "race",
            "note": "Agencia Guatemalteca de Noticias (state news agency), 30 Jun 2026, on the TSE's preliminary schedule ('cronograma electoral preliminar') for the 'elecciones generales y de diputados al Parlamento Centroamericano': convocatoria 22 Jan 2027, polling day 27 Jun 2027, possible second round 22 Aug 2027, campaign 29 Mar-25 Jun 2027. The 22 Aug 2027 runoff date is in the preliminary schedule only; the TSE fixes the dates of each phase in the convocatoria decree (LEPP art. 196), planned for 22 Jan 2027.",
            "check": null
          },
          {
            "url": "https://www.tse.org.gt/images/LEPP2023.pdf",
            "role": "see-also",
            "kind": "other",
            "kindReason": "election page without a results marker",
            "resolvable": false,
            "origin": "race",
            "note": "Ley Electoral y de Partidos Políticos (Decreto 1-85, TSE 2023 compilation), read from the Wayback Machine copy because tse.org.gt answered 403. Art. 196: convocatoria in the second or third week of January, elections 'un domingo del mes de junio'. Art. 201: presidential runoff 'en un plazo no mayor de sesenta días ni menor de cuarenta y cinco'. Art. 209: the TSE resolves the presidential, Congress and PARLACEN elections in single instance. Art. 236: polls open 07:00, close 18:00.",
            "check": null
          },
          {
            "url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2027_Guatemalan_general_election",
            "role": "see-also",
            "kind": "other",
            "kindReason": "election page without a results marker",
            "resolvable": false,
            "origin": "race",
            "check": null
          },
          {
            "url": "https://www.tse.org.gt/",
            "role": "authority-home",
            "kind": "emb_home",
            "kindReason": "site root: cannot answer a results question",
            "resolvable": false,
            "origin": "authority",
            "check": null
          }
        ],
        "page_activity": [],
        "government": null,
        "url": "https://electionindex.org/election/guatemala-general-2027-r2#president"
      }
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