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Espina, four State Secretaries of the Presidency: Antulio Castillo Barajas (Political Business), Guillermo Gonz\u00E1lez (Private Affairs), Marco Antonio Lemus (Particular Affairs) y Manuel Conde (General Secretary); as well as two ministers: Fernando Hurtado Prem (Minister of Governance) and Manuel Bendfelt (Development Ministry); as well as some vice-ministers general directors, among others.\u2019 (1998: 109). As noted before Serrano was relieved of duty in 1992.\u000AIn the interior of the country, several lay people and some pastors were elected as Mayors through diverse party contacts. R\u00EDos Montt\u2019s party won the elections by popular vote in 1994 with a majority in the Congress. An Evangelical politician from an independent church said that FRG party has contributed to the moral deterioration of the nation and loss of credibility towards the State due to the high degree of corruption that characterized Portillo\u2019s government (IO7).\u000AEven with these previous antecedents the NPL still maintain the idea that politics will bring the social, political and economic changes that the country needs. Following this goal Francisco Bianchi of the IVC and former advisor of R\u00EDos Montt founded the ARDE party and was their presidential candidate in 1999. In 2003 he changed the name to MPV (Movement for Principles and Values) which united with the UD. He was the candidate for the Vice Presidency. According to Bianchi \u2018politics does not have to be an appendix but should be seen more as a \u2018ministry\u2019. So the church must take a firm stand with regards to politics\u2019.125 This political practice affirms that at the outset there needs to be an \u2018adequate understanding of the biblical worldview in order to put into practice the principles and values of the Kingdom of God in all spheres of society\u2019 (Aleluya News 5 no37: 12-13). He places those values within the \u2018free market\u2019 system which he considers closest to like the \u2018biblical economy\u2019 model. From this option he pleads for the reduction of the role of the State because he considers that \u2018from the Biblical perspective, it is a small entity with limited responsibilities\u2019 (Aleluya News a\u00F1o 3 no 16: 28-29).\u000A 125 \u2018Stament\u2019 shared In the Foro sobre Evang\u00E9licos y pol\u00EDticos. El Shaddai. Guatemala 08.04.03\u000A 269\u000A