The party was also able to increase its level of support at the simultaneous parliamentary elections, receiving about 9.5% of the national vote.

The party fared better at the parliamentary elections, receiving about 8.8% of the national vote and returned 11 members to Congress.

Prior to the elections in 2019, the party tried to renominate their perennial presidential candidate Mario Estrada, but he was disqualified from seeking office by the Constitutional Court of Guatemala owing to an indictment for drug-trafficking charges.

The law passed its first reading with 150 members of Congress voting in favor, before being shelved on 23 August 2022 due to the protest of 48 cantons.

He is accused by the American authorities of having made a deal with the Sinaloa cartel - from which he allegedly obtained between 10 and 12 million dollars for his election campaign - and of having ordered the murder of rival candidates.