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Evangelicals show that they are not boxed into a single ideological position. Also, some NPL criticized and showed their disagreement towards General R\u00EDos Montt, for his authoritarianism, and the management of his party in government and his role as President of the Congress (from 1999 to 2003). The Pew Forum found a similar result in his studio of ten countries of the world on the relationship between faith and politics of Charismatics and Pentecostals The analysis says that the \u2018Majority of renewalists in every country surveyed say that it is important to them that their political leaders have strong Christian beliefs\u2019(Pew Forum 2006 b).\u000Ad. Dreams of the politicians\u000AIn spite of severe criticism from his opponents, General Rios Montt continues to play an active part in the politics of the country as a member of Guatemalan Republican Front (FRG). Although his party no longer has the strength it once had, he was re-elected as a deputy to Congress in the 2007 elections. According to journalist M. Rodriguez, during the government of the former President Alfonso Portillo, who won the elections by means of the General\u2019s party, four billion quetzals were embezzled [Approximately 522,875 million dollars] (Rodr\u00EDguez Prensa Libre 17 August 2003). Although the General was not accused of corruption, he did not do major things to sue the officials accused of corruption during the government of President Portillo supported by his party. After Portillo\u2019s presidencial period several functionaries were jailed including at the former comptroller of the nation former member of one of the churches under study. In spite of these accusations against him and the weakening of the General\u2019s party, in the 2007 elections his party won fifteen of the seats in the Congress.\u000AIn 1990 Serrano\u2019s party gained two other candidates linked to the Neo-Pentecostal churches for President. According to data collected by James Grenfell, Serrano\u2019s party managed to get twenty Evangelical seats in the Congress (1995: 95). Cant\u00F3n notes the following people were part of Serrano El\u00EDas\u2019 government: the Vice-President Gustavo\u000A 268\u000A