Havana, Cuba.- Cuba will become stronger after the consultation process of the population of the draft Constitution. The population will contribute with ideas on the law of laws starting August 13th, said on Tuesday in Matanzas, Odelia Santana, Specialist of the Municipal Education Center.

The leader of the Federation of Cuban Women, FMC, in the province of Matanzas told ACN that this process will be a democratic exercise and example in the confidence of the Revolutionary government in the people during the current complex moment in the world.

The educator with over 30 years of experience believes that the Cuban people will enrich the text of the draft document because the people are prepared and will express their opinions after studying the proposal which she characterized as renovating and revolutionary.

Odelin Santana expressed that she does not doubt on the citizen participation in this exercise because the draft Constitution ratifies the continuation of the Revolution and at the end, the Constitution in a country like ours is the voice of the people, she affirmed.

The challenge is that each person needs to know their obligations and rights and understand that the Constitution is theirs; we must achieve a legal culture among the population in order to continue developing. She added that we cannot forget the tradition of our country, from the first Constitution of Guaimaro which was well thought out by those that began the struggle for independence 150 years ago.

The popular consultation of the draft proposed Constitution will begin next Monday, document that has and is being sold to the population in the form of tabloid for one Cuban peso. Over 800 thousand have already distributed, over 699 thousand have been sold and another 200 thousand has arrived to other parts of the island on Tuesday, according to the official daily Granma in its website www.granma.cu.
Ernesto Soberón also pointed out that the Cuban citizens who live in over 120 nations will be able to express their criteria, opinions, suggestions and proposals about the changes of the new Constitution project.

“The debate will be similar nationwide and abroad and the possibility to express criteria will be the same one for all the Cubans regardless the place where the citizen could be. The law of laws (local Constitution) is a document where the most general legal norms are included.” He pointed out.

Ernesto Soberón said that the objective is to allow the participation of Cubans living overseas due to personal matters, besides, he pointed out that once that option was available, then all the ones interested could have access to a related form on line by expressing their opinions as many times as they wanted.