The new Constitution of Cuba will be proclaimed today
The new Magna Carta of the Republic of Cuba, endorsed last February 24, will be proclaimed today in an extraordinary session of the Cuban Parliament.
The event will take place at Havana Convention Center, 150 years after the approval of the Guáimaro Constitution, the first of the Government of the Republic in Arms.
The deputies of Parliament, who played an important role in the elaboration of the text and unanimously approved it on December 22, 2018, will play a leading role in this transcendental moment in the history of the nation.
In accordance with the ideas of Miguel Díaz-Canel, President of Cuba, the Cuban Parliament should get ready to carry out from now on a broad legislative exercise, and implement in the shortest possible time all the laws that reinforce the Magna Carta.
On the Law of Laws, the President has expressed in various scenarios that it guarantees the rights of each and every one of the nation’s citizens, it enhances the dignity of the people and it is anti-imperialist.
At the closing of the Second Ordinary Session of the Ninth Legislature of the Parliament he said that the text reaffirms the socialist course of the Revolution and it enables the work of the State, the Government, the organizations and all the people to be channeled into the continuous improvement of society.
The new Magna Carta, submitted to a broad and participatory popular consultation -from August 13 to November 15, 2018- has among its great achievements the continuity of conquests of the Revolution such as free education and health, recognition of effective citizenship and broadening the range of rights, among many other achievements.
Endorsed by the positive vote of 6,816,169 electors, the Constitution has 229 articles, 11 titles, two special provisions, 13 transitional provisions and two final provisions.
Written by Radio Grito de Baire
