Another Step Forward in
Cuban General Elections
Preparations for general
elections next 20th
January will be taken a
step further today, when
delegates at Municipal
level will nominate
candidates for
provincial assemblies
and deputies to the
National Assembly of the
People s Power.
All is ready for the
delegates (council
members) recently
elected to nominate the
1,815 seats contested,
614 of them for the
National Assembly, said
the secretary of the
National Electoral
Commission (CEN), Tomas
Amaran.
Until now preparation is
marching as planned,
said the official as he
explained that even in
the eastern part of the
island everything is
ready for the process
that will renovate
provincial governments
and the national
parliament.
If elections were to be
held tomorrow, he added,
the provinces of Granma,
Holguin, Santiago de
Cuba, Guantánamo and Las
Tunas, as well as
Camaguey would do
alright, in spite of
being recently affected
by floods that left 500
million dollars in
losses.
Those who result
nominated today will be
submitted to the
scrutiny of their
neighbors in the
municipal level or
district, according to
the electoral law in
force since 1992 that
gives the right to vote
to those over 16 years
of age and those who
have not been judicially
incapacitated.
Nominees are about half
of those who were
already elected for the
169 municipal
governments, after being
selected by more than
96.49 percent of the 8.1
million of electors
voting last October.
Over 200 thousand
citizens will directly
support the polls as
electoral authorities
from national to
district level, said
Amaran. |
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