Havana, Cuba.- More than eight million Cubans are now called to exercise their right to a free, direct and secret vote in the referendum that defines whether or not they ratify the new Constitution of the Republic.

In more than 25 thousand 340 electoral colleges, scattered by the 15 provinces of the island, they must act about 225 thousand electoral authorities that received training and tuned the systems last Sunday in a dynamic test.

According to the National Electoral Commission (CEN), the conditions for the massive participation of Cubans in the event at the polls are created, something traditional in the Caribbean country.

In addition to the usual popular role, the referendum will once again have as a distinctive feature with respect to the elections in other parts of the world, the absence of military and police deployments, because in the voting the pioneers (students of primary and secondary education) who are the in charge of taking care of the polls.

Around 200 thousand children will fulfill that role, many of them premiering for the first time, as the little six-year-old Rony, who announced that ‘it will be a very nice day’.

Nobody doubts the overwhelming support of Cubans for a text that ratifies the socialist character of Cuba, and the leading role in its Communist Party society, reflects changes in the structure of the State, expands rights and individual guarantees, and recognizes various forms of property, including private property.

Cuba votes Yes, because it is the Constitution that we made together, it guarantees the rights of all, it is anti-imperialist and it enhances the dignity of our people, President Miguel Diaz-Canel wrote in his Twitter account on the eve of the day.

For his part, the first vice president of the island, Salvador Valdés, said in recent statements to Prensa Latina his confidence in the support for a charter that is a future project for continuity in the construction of socialism and achieve a free homeland , independent, sovereign, democratic and prosperous.

The new law comes to the referendum today after a consultation process that had the participation of almost nine million people, in 133 thousand meetings held in neighborhoods and work and study centers between August 13 and November 15 last.

According to the CEN, a system of parties will operate during the electoral day and a press conference will be held tomorrow to divulge the preliminary figures derived from the appointment at the polls.