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ELECCIONES EN
CUBA: EL PODER DEL PUEBLO |
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Granma Residents Go to the Polls in
Cuba’s
General ElectionsANAISIS
HIDALGO RODRÍGUEZ
In Granma, a south-eastern province of Cuba, more than 2,843
polling stations opened today at seven o’clock in the morning to begin,
as in the rest of the country, the general elections for provincial
delegates and deputies to the national Assembly of the People’s Power.
A dynamic test, the training of the more than 20,000 citizens
working in the polling stations and candidates’ meetings with voters
are features that showed the participatory nature of these general
elections.
Democracy in Cuba lies on the links of deputies with their voters,
on their being elected on social and working merits not money. This
sets Cuban elections apart from those in the United States and many
other nations of the world.
In Granma, elections will take place in some 1,298 constituencies
and six electoral districts, four in Bayamo and two in Manzanillo, the
two most populated municipalities of the city.
Prior to the election
day, people in Granma made
adjustments to the communication system and checked the readiness of
the system and of the people working in polling stations. Candidates’
biographies were posted in more than 10,000 places of the city and
meetings with voters were planned at the Committees for the Defense of
the Revolution, educational and working centers among others, to raise
people’s awareness. |
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