Havana - With some two million copies distributed throughout the country, the new Cuban Constitution is found in neighborhoods and communities to support the referendum scheduled for February 24.

According to the Vice-president of Correos de Cuba, Eldis Vargas, it is the printed document with most copies in the last two decades.

Before the demand of the Magna Carta, the printing will continue to reach three million copies, he said. Vargas praised the work of mailmen, postal agents and workers of newspaper outlets who have been in charge of distributing the text over the Cuban 15 provinces, where some eight million citizens are summoned to vote the Constitution approved on December 22 by the People's Power National Assembly (parliament).

'I celebrate the opportunity to have the text before voting to deepen in its content', Medicine student Orlando Martinez told Prensa Latina.

Citizens will have to vote Yes or No to the question: 'Do you ratify the new Constitution of the Republic?' According to the President of the National Electoral Commission (NEC), Alina Balseiro, Cuba is ready for the referendum, although tasks continue to guarantee its success. Over 420 thousand persons will participate working in different tasks of the consultation, including authorities, collaborators -students of middle and university courses- and students guarding the ballot boxes.

The new constitution, destined to substitute the previous one, enacted in 1976, ratifies the socialist nature of the island and the guiding role of the Communist Party.

The text is fruit of a process considered here as unique in Cuba and the world, because it was enriched with the people's opinions, after a consultation carried out from August 13 to November 15, when the people proposed changes or definitions in 133 thousand meetings in neighborhoods, schools, and workplaces.

According to the Secretary of the Council of State, Homero Acosta, from those meetings and Cubans living abroad came a total of 780 thousand proposals, which later became nine thousand 600 proposals, half of them incorporated in one way or another to the Constitution.

The original project debated by the people resulted in 760 changes to the first text, he highlighted.