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Cubans back new constitution affirming role of socialism
[PULSE.NG] Some 6.8 million people, or more than 86 percent of voters, supported the changes in Sunday's referendum, while only 766,400, or nine percent, voted against.A total of 7.8 million people took part in the vote, with just over four percent of ballots blank or invalid. "The constitution has been ratified by the majority of citizens," electoral commission president Alina Balseiro told a news conference. "Cubans have said #YesForCuba and #YesForTheRevolution," Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez tweeted. "It's an overwhelming response to the unbelievers who from Washington talked about the end of #Socialism, with policies that failed for more than 60 years. "#Cuba keeps going, always free, revolutionary and socialist." US President Donald Trump ...New York real estate developer, described by Dems as illiterate, racist, misogynistic, and what ever other unpleasant descriptions they can think of, elected by the rest of us as 45th President of the United States... had said earlier this month that the leftist ideology is "dying." But academic and former diplomat Carlos Alzugaray had told AFP that Trump's words would serve only to galvanize the "yes" vote as people "defend their independence against the US threat." The constitutional reforms ratify socialism's "irrevocable" role as the national ideology and replaces the 1976 constitution, a move criticized by the Catholic and evangelical churches. It also recognized the Communist Party as the "superior ruling political force in society and the State," and its position as the nation's only party. Posted by: Fred 2019-02-26 |
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