Havana, Cuba.- The 605 deputies to the National Assembly of People’s Power (Parliament) will elect this Thursday the President and Vice President of the Republic and other high officials of the State.

In this way, the deputies will comply with the provisions of the new Constitution -and in the Electoral Law-, and in an extraordinary session called for 10 a.m. at the Havana Convention Center, they will also elect the President, Vice President and Secretary of the referred legislative body, who in turn will be the President, Vice President and Secretary of the Council of State, and the remaining 18 members of the Council of State.

Among the deputies will be those who, due to their extraordinary merits and abilities, will assume such high responsibilities, being now the first time since the institutionalization of the country, begun in 1976 with the emergence of the People’s Power, that the Caribbean nation will have a President of the Republic, whose age must be between 35 and 60 years.

In accordance with the Electoral Law, the National Electoral Council and the National Candidatures Commission will conduct the moment of presentation and approval of the draft candidacies arising from the proposals made a few days ago by the parliamentarians themselves, as well as the announced elections through the direct and secret vote of these representatives of the people.

Such changes in the management structures of a country that has become a Socialist Rule of Law correspond to what is stipulated in its modern Magna Carta, born as the fruit of a historic exercise in collective construction, since millions of compatriots contributed ideas to it, while before it was approved by Parliament there were profound and enlightening debates within it to enrich and perfect it.

Not because such a transcendental step is expected, which consolidates Cuban institutionalization, there are many expectations in the population, the majority of whom are sure and confident that those who from now on will take the reins of the nation will guarantee the continuity of the Revolution, begun 151 years ago, and of the ideas of its historical leader, Fidel Castro.

“In Cuba there has only been one revolution: the one that Carlos Manuel de Céspedes began on October 10, 1868, and that our people are carrying forward in these moments,” proclaimed the Commander in Chief during the vigil for the centennial of that foundational feat.