

In 2021, IFES’ Electoral Governance and Reforms Project was extended for an extra year to support the TSE in advocating for new reforms of the law and of internal TSE processes. The IFES Guatemala team has since supported the TSE in national elections and referendums and between electoral cycles to improve processes on a range of topics, including out-of-country voting, participation of young people and people with disabilities and prevention of electoral conflict. These units drew from best practices of regional election management bodies to improve the Guatemalan electoral system. IFES has worked with the TSE to establish a Control, Oversight and Accountability Unit and a Media Monitoring Unit within the electoral management body to allow for more transparent and accountable electoral processes. Building on its long-term partnership with the TSE, IFES committed its support to the implementation of the most recent reforms to the Law on Elections and Political Parties ( Ley Electoral y de Partidos Politicos), approved in 2016.

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