He was a presidential candidate in both the 2019 and the 2023 Guatemalan general elections.
Personal life
Mulet received his primary education in Guatemala City,Montreal,New York City and Bern. He studied law and social studies at Guatemala City's Universidad Mariano Gálvez. He is married and has two sons. He is fluent in Spanish,English and French.
Career
During the 1980s,Mulet was accused of belonging to an illegal adoption ring that facilitated the departure of babies from the country,posing as tourists. In 1981,he was arrested for falsifying adoption paperwork but the charges were later dropped.[2] In 1984,Mulet was again investigated for falsifying adoption paperwork,but no charges were filed against him.[3]
Mulet was first elected to Congress in 1982. He was a candidate to the 1984 National Constituent Assembly,and was re-elected to Congress for the period 1986–1991. In 1990,he was re-elected for the period 1991–1996. During his years in Congress,he was involved in the Central American peace process,the Esquipulas Accords,and the Guatemalan Peace negotiations. He was also a member of the Guatemalan-Belize Commission,first as a representative of Congress and later as a delegate from the executive branch. In 1992 he became President of Congress.
In 1993,he was appointed Ambassador to the United States,a post from which he resigned following the self-coup of President Jorge Serrano Elías in 1993. Following the restoration of democratic rule,Mulet resumed his functions until 1996. During those years,he was a regular lecturer at think-tanks,universities and colleges across the Americas,and at the Foreign Service Institute in Washington,D.C. Upon his return to Guatemala in 1996,he was elected general secretary of the Unión del Centro Nacional party.
Mulet served as the United Nations Special Representative for Haiti from 2005 to 2007.[4]
In 2007,Mulet was appointed as Assistant Secretary-General for Peacekeeping Operations,a post he held from 2007 to 2010 and again from 2011 to 2015.[5][6]
On 31 March 2010,Mulet was appointed by the United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon as his Special Representative and Head of the United Nations Stabilization Mission in Haiti (MINUSTAH).[5] He succeeded late Hédi Annabi of Tunisia,who perished in the 2010 Haiti earthquake.
He was also a presidential candidate in the 2023 general election.[7] He promised to build a high-security prison and to raise police salaries. He also said that Guatemala was moving towards a more authoritarian style of governance.[8]
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