Cubans’ participation in the consultation on the Draft Constitution reaffirms democracy on the island, the lawmaker from the People”s Power National Assembly Gerardo Hernandez said in Havana on Tuesday.
Cubans’ participation in the consultation on the Draft Constitution reaffirms democracy on the island, the lawmaker from the People”s Power National Assembly Gerardo Hernandez said in Havana on Tuesday.
The president of the National Assembly of People’s Power of Cuba, Esteban Lazo, said that once the current debate of a new Constitution is completed, the first task of the current legislature will be to work on a new electoral law.
During a press conference yesterday, at the historic Belen Jesuit College, where Fidel studied, now the Technical-Military Academy, representatives of the Revolutionary Armed Forces (FAR) and the Ministry of the Interior (Minint) announced that discussion of the proposed new Constitution will begin August 13 in these institutions, as it will around the country.
The project of the new Cuban Constitution represents a total reform of the Magna Carta enacted since 1976, on the issue of citizenship as one of the conditions that change.
Concluded yesterday, July 30, in Havana was a two-day national seminar on the Constitutional reform consultation process, which included more than 280 provincial representatives of the Party, the Young Communists League, mass organizations, the Union of Jurists, political leaders of the Ministries of the Revolutionary Armed Forces and the Interior, as well as the commission charged with Implementation and Development of Policy Guidelines, the National Electoral Commission, the Center for Socio-political Studies, and the Ministry of Foreign Relations.
The First Secretary of the Communist Party of Cuba, Raul Castro, said on Thursday that putting the draft of the new Constitution up for people’s discussion starting early August is an exercise of democracy.
Railway unionists showed their disappointment after the meeting with French Prime Minister Edouard Philippe, who remains adamant on the main points of the controversial reform of the sector.