International Support to Cuban General Elections

HAVANA, Cuba, Apr 18 (ACN) The Vice President of the Institute of Friendship with the Peoples (ICAP), Jose Prieto Cintado highlighted on Wednesday in Havana the number of solidarity messages with the Cuban general electoral process received from all over the world.

Talking to the Cuban News Agency, on the occasion of Wednesday session of the 9th Legislature of the National Assembly of the People's Power, the ICAP representative highlighted the peoples of the world have shown their support to the Caribbean island and its right to self-determination.

He added that this is an example of the people around the world that love, respects and defends us.

People that do not directly participate in solidarity organizations have pronounced themselves in favor of our electoral system, constituting an example of recognition and moral strengthen that Cuba has on the international scene.

Prieto considered important that 80 percent of the members of the National Assembly were born after the triumph of the Revolution, constituting peace of mind and the continuity in the successful path, which began in 1959.

Prieto Cintado referred to the enormous responsibility of the new Legislature, which begins its mandate without the presence of the historic leader of the Revolution, Commander in Chief Fidel Castro, a high source of inspiration in our democratic process, but conscious of his legacy.

Army General Raul Castro will also not be present as President of the Council of State, a man who pushed forward the dynamics with results and advances currently achieved, he said.

Those that swore in on Wednesday as members of the 9th Legislature face the challenge of continuing with what began 150 years ago with the beginning of the independence wars and which has continued cultivating achievements and improving our democratic system, he said.

The ICAP Vice President pointed out that the National Assembly of the People's Power has the challenge of facing a new more aggressive US administration whose policy has inflicted a halt to the normalization of relations between both nations.

According to Prieto Cintado, the new Parliament has the mission of drafting strategies to face the challenges of international relations in addition to carrying out a constitutional reform that legally supports the changes that must be introduced in order to improve the economic and social life of the country.