Havana, Cuba.- The National Electoral Council (CNE) has the constitutional mission of guaranteeing, directing and supervising the election of the high state offices that will take place today in the Cuban Parliament.

It will be the first elections that the CNE will be in charge of, whose members were elected by the National Assembly of Popular Power (ANPP) last July.

On that occasion, the Cuban legislators approved the Electoral Law, as provided by the Constitution enacted in April this year.

Today, legislators will elect the president and vice president of the Republic.

Also, the president, vice president and secretary of the ANPP (parliament), who will hold equal positions in the State Council, whose members will be elected on the same day.

It will be historic and coincides with the 151 anniversary of the beginning of the struggles for independence on the island.

The National Electoral Council guarantees the reliability, transparency, speed, publicity, authenticity and impartiality of the processes of democratic participation, states the magna Carta.

It works permanently and in its structure includes the positions of president, vice president, secretary and 18 members.

The average age of the members of the CEN is 53 years, the majority of its members are women and 11 of them jurists, which will strengthen, according to the opinion of President Miguel Díaz-Canel, their attachment to jurisprudence and legality.

Attorney Alina Balseiro, its president, held equal responsibility in the National Electoral Commission, which was in charge of electoral processes and popular and democratic participation on the island until the election of the CEN.