Cuban Parliament Continues Analysis on Draft Constitution
At the plenary session at Havana's Conference Center, the lawmakers will listen to the criteria of their peers, after the secretary of the Council of State and a member of the commission to draw up the Constitution, Homero Acosta, presented the document in detail on Friday.
Depending on how long the lawmakers' discussions takes, the National Assembly could approve the initiative to reform the law of laws in force since 1976 on Saturday.
The process for the adoption of the Constitution is taking place because the attending legislators (the Assembly currently has 602 lawmakers) set their position, and the vote of no less than two thirds of the Assembly's members is needed for approval.
If the parliamentary support is materialized, the path will be paved so that the Council of State calls for a referendum, at which Cubans will express through direct and secret voting their approval of the Constitution or not.
The document under discussion at the National Assembly contains 229 articles (five more than the version adopted in July by the lawmakers) and underwent 760 changes based on the proposals made from August 13 to November 15 in more than 133,000 meetings held in neighborhoods, workplaces and schools, in which almost nine million people participated.
According to Acosta, about 783,000 opinions (with calls to add, modify or delete articles) from the consultation became after being processed about 9,600 standard proposals, half of which were added one way or another to the Constitution.
The Draft Constitution ratifies Cuba's socialist nature and the leading role of the Communist Party in its society. It also reflects changes in the structure of the State, such as the creation of the position of the President of the Republic and the Prime Minister. It expands rights and duties, and recognizes several forms of property, including socialist and private properties.
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