Cuba to begin constitutional reforms

Presidential term limits and the legalisation of same-sex marriage are amongst reforms being proposed by Cuba's national assembly.

The intention is to constitutionally formalise the island's economic and social opening-up while maintaining the "irrevocable nature of socialism".

Former President Raúl Castro will lead the potential reforms, President Miguel Diaz-Canel has announced.

Miguel Diaz-Canel took over from Raul Castro as the country's leader in April 2018

The Castro brothers, first Fidel and them Raul. ruled the country between 1959 and 2018

The last constitutional reform in 2002 decreed that the socialist character of the political system in Cuba was "irrevocable".

Most ordinary Cubans are keen to see what the parliament will decide on the island's economic and social future.