Havana, Cuba.- Cuba begins its final phase in the run-up to the February 24 referendum, when more than eight million people have been called to the polls to vote on the new Constitution of the Republic.

The National Electoral Commission (CEN) carried out the dynamic test on Sunday, an exercise aimed at verifying different aspects of suffrage.

As on other occasions, during the rehearsal everything related to voting was verified and perfected.

The test took place in two moments, the first of them dedicated to check the resources, insurance, personnel, media and computer to be deployed next Sunday.

Then there was a closing and an exercise involving electoral structures at all levels.

The test contemplated working with simulated situations and reports as testing of processing, scrutiny, handling of results from polling stations to districts and from there to higher instances.

Cuba was thus ratified as ready for the referendum, which is expected to clearly endorse the Magna Carta approved on December 22 by the National Assembly of People’s Power.

The suffrage abroad ended Sunday, when thousands of diplomats, collaborators and scholars exercised their rights.

Regarding February 24 voting, President Miguel Diaz-Canel recalled that this is a glorious date, marking the resumption of the independence movement in 1895.

Cuba is ready to say Yes to the Constitution we did together. I vote Yes for that collective work’, he wrote on Twitter.

The new Magna Carta that Cubans will vote on is the result of the population’ contribution, which between August 13 and November 15 participated in more than 133,000 meetings in workplaces, study centers and communities to give their opinion on the document.

That process, which was also extended to Cubans living abroad, resulted in some 780,000 proposals, turned after analysis and processing into 9,600 standard proposals, half of which were incorporated into the constitutional text.