Cuba: the free right to the democracy

By :Ernesto Pantaleón Medina / Television Camagüey

--Neighbor, Have you already vote?

Elections in Cuba - People of Camagüey Interrogant that repeats in thousands of blocks in the whole country, in the occasions in that the Cubans go to exercise the sacred right to the vote, or what is the same thing, to choose from free way and sovereign to those of our more qualified countrymen, with more merits and capacity to represent us in the Government of the Town.

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They are not simple words, but rather it is a practice that is carried out an and another time since in l976, we took an important step in the institucionalization of the archipelague, with the creation of the Organs of the Popular Power.

And something that can be good to clarify the ideas to more than a doubtful or not well informed in any latitude: in the earth of Marti and Fidel is not abstentionism, inherent characteristic to all the electoral processes in the calls “democracies” in those that you grieve 50% converges to the urns and sometimes less than the citizens with age for it (that non right, because to many are vetoed, he buys or manipulates).

The attendance to the elections in Cuba surpasses 85% like average thoroughly, and until people of very advanced age, handicapped physical and sick persons demand are transferred, still in seats of wheels, toward the schools, to feel direct participants of so important decision. To other, are taken the ticket to their homes, guarded by representatives of the organizations of masses (never of the Communist Party, or of the Armed Bodies) with a grateful prestige before their neighbors, and something that has not lacked a single time: the children of the Organization of Pioneers “José Martí” that guarantee the transparency of a fact of such a seriousness with their presence, and ratify with the characteristic greeting that everything goes of agreement with the strictest norms.

You choose to who govern it, since from the same beginning of the electionary process, in the nomination assemblies, next to the rest of the residents of the vicinity, proposes to the most capable and with more prestige, given by their attitude before the other ones, their delivery to the work and their honesty to all test. Then taking the word, argues the reasons, and the other ones, after listening other options, decide, in an open way and raising the hand, to nominate the candidates to delegates of the district level.

After the elections, as this of tomorrow, and with the quarry of base representatives, the Municipal Assemblies are constituted, that is to say, the maximum government organs in that level.

With similar diaphaneity, and with the total absence of campaigns, we choose the Cubans to those who administer our social system.

For that reason, very early, and as species of friendly competition that goes after the very common one, somebody knocks on their door in the luminous morning that begins and after the one forced “good morning” with a frank smiles, informs : “ I already vote, and you?