The National Assembly of People’s Power is the Legislative Parliament of the Republic of Cuba and the supreme body of State power. Its members (currently numbering 614) are elected from single-member electoral districts for a term of 5 years.
Some 95 percent of Cuba's 8.7 million residents over 16 years of age were expected to cast ballots with polling stations on just about every block. Cubans went to the polls on Sunday to elect a Communist Party-selected slate of 612 deputies to the National Assembly.More than 8 million are eligible to vote and will approve the 612 members of the National Assembly and over 1,600 provincial delegates.
All organised opposition is banned in Cuba and all candidates for elections have been selected by the ruling Communist Party or its affiliated associations.The one-party elections in Cuba, alongside steady but slow progress on opening the economy, represent how the current regime intends to manage change on the island - giving the people more space to participate in the economy while controlling their role in politics and civic life
The general election cycle began last year with the election of more than 15,000 ward delegates in the only vote in which residents choose between two or more candidates.
Party-controlled commissions then selected candidates for provincial assemblies and the single-chamber national assembly, at least 50 percent of whom must be ward delegates and the remainder officials and personalities from the arts, sports and other sectors
The elected unicameral legislature will convene on February 24 and pick a new parliament chief for the first time in twenty years.
Raul Castro(81) is expected to be given another five-year term by the National Assembly
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