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Cuba applies new Constitution and institutional strengthening
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Cuba applies the new Constitution and reinforces its institutionality today after the National Assembly of People’s Power (ANPP) elected the highest state offices.

The Magna Carta promulgated in April set a deadline to elect the president and vice president of the Republic, and the presidency of the National Assembly, whose members approved the day before with the vote of the deputies head to the Council of State, entity that represents the Parliament between sessions of the legislative body.

Before, in July, the Electoral Law, the National Electoral Council and the National Candidacy Commission had been approved. This is how the 10th extraordinary session of the IX Legislature was reached this October 10, in which he was elected as president of the Republic Miguel Díaz-Canel, who since April 2018 served as president of the Councils of State and Ministers.The vice presidents of the Republic, Salvador Valdés Mesa, and Ana María Mari Machado, remain in those responsibilities, and Homero Acosta will serve as secretary of the ANPP and the State Council. On the same day Esteban Lazo was ratified at the head of the ANPP and the State Council, in a redistribution of functions determined by the magna Carta.Under the principle of not being a judge and party and by constitutional mandate, in the new State Council there are no ministers nor are the holders of the Supreme Court of Justice, the Attorney General’s Office or the Comptroller’s Office.

Chapter III of the new Cuban Constitution, in its article 125, it is specified that the president of the Republic is the head of the State, and in article 126 it is stated that he is elected by the National Assembly of Popular Power from among his deputies with a favorable vote of the absolute majority, for a period of five years, and he gives this account of his management.Díaz-Canel will govern until 2023 when the current parliament term ends. Then you can aspire to another mandate, and last, five years.

According to the Magna Carta, the President of the Republic must be 35 years old and no more than 60 years in his term.As of October 10, Díaz-Canel also assumes the supreme leadership of the armed institutions and determines their general organization, in addition to presiding over the National Defense Council. In the coming months the Cuban Parliament must pass numerous laws that will give life to the Constitution and will constitute other milestones in the country’s institutionality.

Raúl about Díaz-Canel: He has demonstrated ideological strength, political sensitivity and fidelity towards the Revolution Army General Raúl Castro Ruz, First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba, delivered a speech on April 19, 2018 in which, along with other issues, he detailed the political and ethical values ​​of Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez.Raúl recalled that Díaz-Canel, “after attaining the degree of electronic engineer at the Central University of Las Villas, worked in that profession” and served his military service in anti-aircraft rocket units of the far to later become a professor at the Faculty of Engineering Electrical of the student center itself from where he served as a professional cadre of the Young Communist Union, until deserving other management positions and being promoted to the professional work of the Party.

The First Secretary of the Party stressed that, in the first years of the special period, in his most difficult moments, Díaz-Canel “was First Secretary of the Provincial Committee of Villa Clara for nine years and held equal responsibility in the province of Holguin for another six , in both cases with satisfactory results ”. Of the election that had just been made in his honor, as President of the Councils of State and Ministers, Raul said it was no accident. In this regard, he stated that “it was foreseen, within a group, that the best, according to our modest opinion, and of the Party, has been the companion Díaz-Canel and that we do not doubt that, for the virtues, for his experience and for the dedication to the work he has developed, he will have absolute success in the task entrusted to him by our supreme body of state power. ”

His status as a member of the Central Committee of the Party since 1991, his subsequent promotion to the Political Bureau, his fulfillment of an internationalist mission in the Republic of Nicaragua and his knowledge as a graduate of the National Defense College were other elements validated by Raúl, who also highlighted the Appointment made in 2009 as Minister of Higher Education and in 2012 as Vice President of the Council of Ministers for the attention of organizations linked to education, science, sports and culture. His career for five years as First Vice President of the Councils of State and of Ministers, which combined with the attention of the ideological sphere of the Central Committee of the Party, was pointed out by the Army General, who also assured that, given all these experiences, He may well later assume the condition of First Secretary of the Communist Party.

“When he fulfills his two mandates,” said Raul, “if he works well, and this is approved by the Central Committee of our Party and the supreme body of state power, which is this Assembly of which we are a part, he must remain. The same thing we are doing now, he has to keep him with his substitute. ” (…) Naturally, the superior organs of the Party and the State will be the ones who will decide, ”he explained. “Companion Diaz-Canel is not an improvised, over the years he has shown maturity, work capacity, ideological strength, political sensitivity, commitment and fidelity towards the Revolution,” he said.

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