As expected, the Cuban Parliament on Sunday approved a draft new constitution, which recognizes the market and private property as part of its socialist economy, and which will be submitted to a national referendum on a date still to come. not determined before its final ratification. The text, which renews the Magna Carta valid since 1976, will now be discussed at a referendum in the country's neighborhoods from 13 to 15 November.
The new draft constitutional text was unanimously approved in an ordinary session of the National Assembly (unicameral) after two days of debate. "We are facing a project that will help, after the referendum and the popular referendum, to strengthen the unity of Cubans around the revolution," said President Miguel Díaz-Canel, at the end of the meeting. two-day parliamentary session. 19659003] Final. President Miguel Díaz-Canel addresses the closing debate on the Constitutional Reform in Cuba (DPA). ” observer=”” data-observer-function=”loadLazyImg”/>
Final. President Miguel Diaz-Canel addresses the closing debate on the Constitutional Reform in Cuba (DPA).
The Cuban leader called for an "active and conscious" participation in the consultation convened this Sunday, during which "all Cubans will be able to freely express their opinions and contribute to a constitutional text reflecting the present and the future. The future of the country. "
The draft of 224 articles reaffirms the" socialist character "of the Cuban political system and the leading role of the ruling and only Communist party, while maintaining its economic fundamentals:" the socialist property of all peoples and the planned direction of the economy ". However, lays the foundation for the integration of different economic actors, recognizing the role of the market in the socialist economy of the island, foreign investment and new forms of ownership, including the private. It also removes from its constitutional text the part that refers to "communist society" as an end.
Discussions. A moment of open debate in Cuba for its new Constitution (DPA).
The new Magna Carta will institute the formula of the President of the Republic (current President of the State Council and Ministers), and the Vice President. Restores the Prime Minister's position. In addition, contrary to the current Constitution, which dates from 1976, the project defines marriage as the union between two people, without specifying bad, legally opening the way for same-bad marriage, an important requirement of the LGBT community ( bads, gays, transbaduals, bibaduals and interbad) and which was discussed this Sunday in Parliament at the penultimate day of debates on the draft of the new constitutional text
The future Magna Carta – which modifies 113 articles, adds 87 and eliminates 11 of the current Constitution – reflects the economic changes that lives the country after the moderate reforms imp regre during the presidency of Raúl Castro (2008-2018), but does not envisage any political reforms.
It was precisely the youngest of the Castro who announced last April, during the transfer of the head of state to Díaz-Canel, that the constitutional reform was imminent, and it was not until the end of the year. He is also the head of the Commission that prepared the first project in less than three months. This underlies the reforms enforced by Raúl Castro since 2006, which legalized companies out of the state in certain sectors such as the hospitality, transportation and other industries. services, and that President Diaz-Canel continued to badume last April
The process of use led in 2015 to a purge of notorious figures of the conservative wing . The delay in achieving these goals is the emergence and cost of internal struggles between openness and conservatives. The collapse of Venezuela, the last link of external economic containment that the island has received, has accelerated the pragmatic vision, while the search for investment has become a matter of survival, especially before the end. the arrival of Donald Trump as President of the United States. United Kingdom
A speech by Raul Castro is expected Monday to mark all debates in Parliament
