[NYTr] Cuba: Electoral Process Begins with Voting for Local Office July 10
 
Date: Tue, 3 Jul 2007 16:18:53 -0500 (CDT)

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Cuban Electoral Process to Begin on July 10th

Havana, July 3 (acn) Cuba will start an electoral process on July 10 
which begins with the voting for municipal and provincial delegates and 
ends up with parliamentarian elections in 2008.

According to the President of the Cuban parliament, Ricardo Alarcon, at 
a meeting with members of the University Students Federation (FEU) in 
this capital, over 350,000 youngsters throughout the island will 
exercises their right to vote for the first time.

Alarcon stressed the importance of the participation of new generations 
in the electoral process and noted that Cuban democracy has always 
promoted a close relationship between the delegates and their voters, 
reports Juventud Rebelde newspaper.

For his part, FEU president Carlos Lage Codorniu expressed his 
organization's commitment to contribute with talks and debates at the 
university branches on the preparation of the electoral process.

Cuban municipal and provincial authorities are elected every two and a 
half years while parliamentarian elections are held every five years.

Every Cuban citizen over 16 years has full right to vote.
       
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