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Logistics
for the municipal elections tested in Cuba
April 11, 2005
WITH less
than one week to the elections of delegates to the
country’s 169 Municipal Assemblies (local
government) more than 300,000 Cubans have confirmed
the logistical conditions for exercising their vote. Juan Vela,
vice president of the National Electoral Commission
(CEN), informed the media that the dynamic test
yesterday (Sunday) checked all the information
systems to be used in the April 17 elections.
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Voter registration lists posted at polling stations
April 6, 2005
VOTER registration
lists, broken down among the 37,200 polling stations to operate during the
upcoming April 17 elections, will be posted today to facilitate in advance
citizens’ knowledge of exactly where they are supposed to vote for the
delegate/s nominated in the constituency where they reside.
Rubén Pérez, a member of the National Electoral Commission (CEN),
also confirmed that the aforementioned lists will be subject to updating until
April 16, when the basic report will be issued with the official number of
registered voters in the country.
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For the first time
March
30, 2005
HER curly blonde
hair tumbled over her pionera (young pioneer) blue neck scarf. A few days
earlier, she had arrived home from school to breathlessly announce that she had
been chosen to guard the ballot box. In her gleaming
shoes, Fany took up a posture conferring a solemn appearance on her 10 years.
Her green eyes sparkled whenever a friend or relative went to deposit their
vote. Fany’s blonde hair, contrasting with her green eyes, reminded me of the
girl dressed up as a sunflower at the play performed at Fany’s elementary
school, where biographies and photos of constituency candidates were posted
during the electoral period.
• Elections in
Cuba, an expression of popular will
March
23, 2005
IN Cuba, the elections are an expression of
popular will, which constitutes a real democracy, affirmed Rodrigo Alvarez
Cambras, director of the Frank País International Orthopedic Science Complex.
• More than 100,000
Cubans debate the electoral system
March
22, 2005
AS is stipulated by Cuban election law, every two-and-a-half years, elections
are held for the municipal assemblies, and every five years delegates are
elected to provincial assemblies and parliamentary deputies to the National
Assembly.
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All
tricks and lies
March
21, 2005
CIENFUEGOS—Argelio Cabrera has lived an intense life.
His years of experience make it possible for him to
reflect on the electoral processes that existed
before the Revolution’s triumph and those of today.
His active mind brings back memories that lead him
to affirm: "The elections back then were all tricks
and lies."
• More women
nominated as People’s Power neighborhood delegates
March
10, 2005
AS of February 28, women made up 29% of
candidates proposed as neighborhood delegates during
the nomination assemblies taking place as part of
the Cuban electoral process now underway.
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ELECTORAL PROCESS
Memories that mark a person
March
8, 2005
AS a girl, I used to listen to my mother
recount – with the pride of a combatant who shows
off battle scars – that nobody could force her to
vote in 1958.
• The
only requirement is to receive majority support
March
4, 2005
THE exercise of political rights in Cuba is
undergoing another critical test. Beginning today, and until March 24, tens of
thousands of voter assemblies will take place, and more than eight million
citizens will nominate their candidates for municipal delegates.
• More
than 700 women candidates for municipal governments
March
2, 2005
More than 700 Cuban women are hoping to become
members of the People’s Power municipal assemblies
at the end of the first five days of meetings to
elect local government members that are taking place
throughout Cuba.
• "A
transparent process"
March
1, 2005
INVITED by the
National Assembly of People’s Power for an exchange
of experiences, Dario Vivas, a deputy in the
Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela’s National Assembly,
shared his opinions on Cuba’s electoral process,
calling it positive and transparent after
participating in a nomination assembly for municipal
delegates in Havana’s Playa municipality.
• One
of the Cuban electoral system’s most important
stages begins today
February
24, 2005
TODAY begins
another extremely important step in our democratic process, as Cuban voters
participate in the first of more than 41,500 nomination meetings held in 15,000
districts around the country.
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