LATIN AMERICA BRIEF OCPAS LAB 85-262 FOR 09 NOVEMBER 1985.

Created: 11/9/1985

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OV 85

3. GUATEMALA: RUNOFF ELECTION SCHEDULED

//PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATES OF THE TWO MAJOR CENTRIST PARTIES, WHICH DOMINATED THE ELECTIONS LAST SUNDAY. ORE PREPARINGUNOFFECEMBER. VINCIO CEREZO OF THE CENTER-LEFT CHRISTIAN DEMOCRATIC PARTY WONERCENT OF THE VOTE, WHILE JORGE CARPIO OF THE NATIONAL CENTRIST UNION RECEIVEDERCENT.

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HE SMOOTH HANDLING OF THE FIRSTUCCESSFUL RUNOFF. WHICH WILL BE PRECEDED BYAS THE TWO FRONT-RUNNERS SCRAMBLE FOR SUPPORT FROMCEREZO PROBABLY MILL GAIN THE BACKING OF THE OTHERMEANMK1LE, THE POOR SHOWING OF RIGHTIST PARTIESDECLINE IN THEIR POPULARITY SINCE THE CONSTITUENTLAST JULY//.