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The Constitution Will Recognize Private Property, The Market And Foreign Investment

Editorial LA HABANA,

EFE – AFP

The 605 deputies of the National Assembly of Cuba began yesterday The "individual study" of the draft of the new Constitution to be approved this weekend, at the first ordinary plenary session of the year of the unicameral Parliament of the island.

The ten standing committees of the Assembly will be working in camera until Friday, before the plenary session – scheduled for July 21-23 – to discuss updates to the current Magna Carta (1976). ), reported the Cuban agency. News (ACN).

During these three days of work, internal issues will be discussed, the liquidation of the state budget for 2017 will be reported, and a report will be prepared to be presented to the plenary session, said the concise note.

Important Amendments
According to advances published last Saturday by official means, the new Constitution will for the first time include the prohibition to discriminate against persons according to their gender identity, recognize private property, institute the figure of the President of the Republic and limit his mandate to ten years maximum. Despite the inclusion of "significant changes", the text of the project confirms that there will be no change in the "socialist character of the political and social system" on the island, which maintains as "superior force" the Communist Party of Cuba (CCP, only legal).

The Proposed Changes
The Elimination of Provincial Assemblies of People's Power and its Replacement by a Provincial Government, Led by the New Figure of the Governor and His Council, are Included Among the Changes Proposed by the Commission in Charge Project Development, led by former president and leader of the CPC, Raúl Castro.