Havana, Mar 31 (Prensa Latina) Following the validation of the results of its national elections, Cuba is getting ready today for the constitution of the 10th Legislature of the National Assembly of People’s Power (Parliament), scheduled for April 19.
The 470 deputies elected last March 26, with more than 61 percent of the valid votes cast, will have the responsibility to elect the president and vice president of the Republic and other high positions, and to keep on implementing the legislation of the Constitution in the next five years.
They represent all the sectors, among which stand out those of the Popular Power and the Government, education and higher education, food, agricultural, sugar, cooperative and peasant sectors.
According to the final results, offered the day before by the National Electoral Council, among the elected legislators, 262 (55.74 percent) are women; 93 (19.79 percent) are young people up to 35 years of age, while 167 were ratified.
These elections took place in the midst of a complex economic situation in the country, worsened by the multidimensional global crisis and the intensification of the US blockade, to which was added an intense campaign of discredit and calls for abstention from abroad.
In spite of this, six million 164 thousand 876 voters went to the polls that day, representing 75.87 percent of an updated electoral roll of eight million 129 thousand 321 Cubans, in a demonstration of confidence in the Parliament.
For these reasons, Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel described this election process as an act of courage of the Revolution, and a resounding victory that had the population as the main protagonist.
It was a demonstration of civism and patriotism, of loyalty to the Revolution, of fidelity, of political conscience, which showed that the people know who is the real cause of the situation we are facing, said the Cuban president in a meeting of the Council of Ministers held last Wednesday.
