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President Oscar Berger's action on Sunday drew criticism from opposition politicians including Guatemalan Republican Front Rep.

Backed by the Guatemalan Republican Front and other rightist parties, as well as the country's powerful lobby of active-duty and retired army generals, the bill would modify Guatemala's 19th-century code of military conduct and transfer prosecutions for crimes committed by soldiers and officers to military courts.

However, evangelical Protestants appear to be represented in greater proportion in the Guatemalan Republican Front, which was the governing party from 2000 to 2004.

Arzu and Alfonso Portillo of the Guatemalan Republican Front (FRG) was organized because none had won the "50 per cent plus one" majority on 12 November, when elections were held for the country's parliament and local legislatures, the UN Mission for the Verification of Human Rights and of Compliance with the Commitments of the 29 March 1994 Comprehensive Agreement on Human Rights in Guatemala (MINUGUA) reported.

If we vote for the Guatemalan Republican Front and Rios Montt, we are going to return to the violence of the past and the inept political management of the country," Arzu said Wednesday in a televised debate.

Still, many worry there will be violence if Rios Montt whose Guatemalan Republican Front party currently controls the presidency loses.

Business leaders and clothing manufacturers are urging Guatemalan President Alfonso Portillo to veto a new law meant to prevent sales of fake name-brand merchandise and push for a stricter measure, reports Reuters (July 28, 2000): But leaders of Portillo's majority Guatemalan Republican Front (FRG) party want him to sign the Industrial Property Law, saying it will work.

Nobel Peace Prize laureate Rigoberta Menchu described the court ruling as "a coup d'etat," suggesting Rios Montt's Guatemalan Republican Front party which controls the presidency and enjoys a majority in Congress had somehow co-opted the court.