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Mika

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4. Raul isn't running for a seat representing Municipio Segundo Frente, Santiago again. He's retiring.

Reply to hack89 (Reply #3)

Fri Jan 2, 2015, 08:50 PM

Jan 2015

Someone else will be elected to the seat in the National Assembly representing Raul's home district, Segundo Frente, in Santiago.
As in all parliamentary systems, the Cuban Head of State is elected from the national parliament/assembly.
We'll have to take a look at the candidates in 2018.

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Socialism Will Continue in Cuba [View all] polly7 Jan 2015 OP

Wait a minute!!!! Mika Jan 2015 #1

Every single party authoritarian state has an elected legislature. hack89 Jan 2015 #3

Raul isn't running for a seat representing Municipio Segundo Frente, Santiago again. He's retiring. Mika Jan 2015 #4

You honestly believe that Cuban elections are truely multii party, don't you? hack89 Jan 2015 #5

I have never said that. The elections in Cuba are no-party elections. Mika Jan 2015 #7

The Cuban people do not have the power to make that kind of change hack89 Jan 2015 #8

Amazing how little right-wing US Americans know about other countries, isn't it? Judi Lynn Jan 2015 #9

Some imagined "win" in an internet debate seems more important than reality. Mika Jan 2015 #10

Cuba has been violating that statement for at least a decade Bacchus4.0 Jan 2015 #2

Socialism with heavy reliance on privatization of the economy FrodosPet Jan 2015 #6