CUBAN ELECTIONS

Cuban voters had already held over 48,000 assemblies until Saturday, September 22, during the first stage of the Cuban general elections now entering its final week.»

Over 800 candidates to be members (delegates) of the Municipal Assemblies of the People’s Power have been already nominated in Sancti Spiritus, central Cuba.»

Cuba’s National Elections Commission called satisfactory the arrangements for the Oct. 21st nomination of candidates to make up the Municipal Assemblies of the People’s Power with the run-offs set for October 28th.»

Over 2100 meetings will be held in Sancti Spiritus as part of the nomination of candidates for delegates to the Municipal Assemblies of the People’s Power which began last Monday around the Cuban archipelago.»

A total of 1200 polling stations are to work in Sancti Spiritus during the upcoming elections of delegates to the Municipal Assemblies of the People’s Power, convened for October 21st in Cuba.»

Over 2 700 young residents from Sancti Spiritus, central Cuba, will vote for the first time next October. They are part of the nearly 8,5 million people who will exercise the vote in the island, of whom 200 000 reach the voting age this year.»

The work is currently addressed to closing the schedule of these meetings, programmed from September 3 to 29, where people have the power to propose and nominate candidates.»

All members of the Cuban electoral commissions are currently organizing the first stage of general elections in the country, which includes the identification of constituency sections for the upcoming nomination of candidates to municipal governments, to take place September 29.»

The Municipal Electoral Commissions were officially constituted on Tuesday to take the reins of these general elections in the eight territories from Sancti Spiritus.»

Cubans will officially set up all 167 municipal electoral commissions on Tuesday throughout the island as part of the first stage of general elections taking place this year in the country.»