Cuba will elect its first President of the Republic after 40 years | Chronic

Cuba will elect next Thursday its first President of the Republic for more than 40 years. This figure ceased to exist in 1976 and was restored with the new Constitution approved in April of this year.

The elections will be held in a special session of the National Assembly (unicameral Parliament), although more than 11,000 Cubans have asked during the consultation for the drafting of the new Constitution that the president be directly elected.

The new electoral law approved in July this year maintains the process of direct election of deputies and reduces the composition of the Council of State – the highest governing body of the country – from 31 to 21 members, including address.

Cuban deputies will also elect the vice president and secretary of the Council of State, at most
the governing body of the island, for which changes are expected.

These changes imply a deconcentration of executive power from the model that has governed Cuba for decades.

The last President of the Republic of Cuba was the lawyer Osvaldo Dorticós, who took office from 1959 to 1976, after the entry into force of the Cuban Constitution, and Fidel Castro was appointed President of the Council of Cuba. State, the supreme body of the new government. politician, followed by his brother Raúl Castro, who sold in April 2018 the seat of the State in Díaz-Canel.

In elections, it is expected that Miguel Diaz-Canel, the current president of state councils and ministers is ratified as president. He begins his first five-year term as president of the island, one year after taking office, and could make decisions without relying on the approval of the State Council.

Once elected, the President of the Republic has three months to appoint the Prime Minister. This post also disappeared with the 1976 Constitution and was reinstated.