For the
2011 presidential election and the
2015 Guatemalan election, the party's secretary-general and candidate was
Manuel Baldizón. In the 2011 election, Baldizón polled in second place in both the first round and second round of the election, with 23 percent and 46 percent of the votes cast, respectively. In the 2015 election, he polled in third place, with 19.6 percent of the votes cast, and thus did not go onto the runoff election to select the president. According to Insight Crime, the
Renewed Democratic Liberty has strong ties with groups of drug traffickers.
2011 legislative election In the September 11, 2011 Legislative Election, LIDER won 8.9% of the vote and 14 seats in Congress. Presidential Candidate
Manuel Baldizón placed second in the Presidential Race with 23.2% of the votes (1,038,287 votes), eventually losing in the November 6 run-off to conservative
Otto Pérez Molina of the
Patriotic Party (PP). Baldizón got 1,981,003 votes or 46.26% of the votes. ==References==