In reality, candidates still need to receive 50 per cent of votes to be elected. Municipal elections in November attracted a turnout of just 68.5 per cent, down from the 74 per cent who voted two months earlier in a referendum on a new family code, and even further down from the 90 per cent in the 2019 referendum on a new constitution.Ĭuba's communist government does not allow opposition, so most of the parliamentary candidates - made up of 263 women and 207 men - are members of the Cuban Communist Party (PCC).ĭissident Manuel Cuesta Morua, a member of the Council for the Democratic Transition in Cuba, said that "a sociological force is becoming the largest political party in the country: the abstentionist party."
Voting is not obligatory and abstention has risen steadily in recent years. The opposition has called on Cubans to abstain, with one opposition Twitter account calling the vote a "farce." What is really in play is the number of Cubans who refuse to vote. HAVANA, Cuba, (AFP) – Cubans headed to the polls on Sunday for parliamentary elections in which the results are a foregone conclusion but with the abstention rate the real issue in play.Īs many as eight million eligible voters will select from the 470 candidates on the ballot box vying for the 470 seats in the National Assembly. Cubans vote for the deputies that will make up the People's Power National Assembly, a unicameral parliament.
A man wearing a shirt with an image of Ernesto 'Che' Guevara prepares to vote at a polling station in Havana, Cuba, Sunday, March 26, 2023.
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