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Cuba Will Defend its Sovereignty in
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Cuba Will Defend its Sovereignty in
Next Elections, Alarcon Asserts
The president of the Cuban
Parliament, Ricardo Alarcón, has asserted that Cuba will defend its
sovereignty in the April elections amidst US plans geared to destroy the
Island´s electoral system, the local press highlights Friday. Glimpses
of a Constituency Meeting in Havana
Alarcón made his statement last night while talking to a group of young
Cubans, who will exercise for the first time their right to vote in the
April universal and secret suffrage to elect deputies to Municipal
Assemblies (local governments).
The Parliament leader said the Island's foes were trying to erase the
example Cuba is posing to the world and had planned to impose on it a
system similar to the US, whose tricky practices are widely known.
Women, youngsters -with their renovating impetus-, black, white and
colored people from different sectors of the Cuban socialist civil
society can be freely nominated by the people as candidates to the
island's legislative bodies, Alarcón stressed according to Friday´s
Granma daily.
The Parliament president said this diversity contributed to improve the
Cuban political system and highlighted that the forthcoming vote would
be a great example amidst US threats.
Cubans were currently showing their high cultural and educational levels
in the ongoing nomination process and would also do it in the municipal
elections on April 17, Alarcon said.
Open constituency meetings to pick up candidates in hand-raise votes as
delegates for the municipal assemblies started last February 24. Some
41,000 of these gatherings have been scheduled across country.
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