Draft Constitution of Cuba, under debate in Contramaestre

Contramaestre keeps developing the popular consultation on the draft Constitution of the Republic of Cuba, as one more exercise of the participatory democracy, in which the civil society freely takes part.

The draft Magna Carta, which is submitted to a broad debate process in Contramaestre, allows citizens 16 years of age and older to express their criteria for modifying, suppressing or adding changes to the normative document that contains, in addition to the preamble, 224 articles.

For these purposes, a timetable was drawn up with 1,150 meetings, out of which 583 have been already held, with more than 2,000 proposals based on the precepts contained in the text of the constitutional reform.

As tendencies in the criteria of the Contramaestrians are the proposals to add to the Project, the Concept of Revolution, given by the eternal Fidel Castro, as well as the issues of living wages and prices, the obligatory nature of work, the right to transfer land ownership and the agreement of marriage between a man and a woman.

In several of these consultations, many folks have come up with a proposal to extend the maximum age of the President of the Republic to 70 years of age, and ask for possibility of the President to be elected by the people, regardless of whether he or she is proposed and elected by the Parliament.