Cuban government officials say over 75% of eligible voters cast ballots in the legislative election, despite expectations of lower voter turnout due to increasing discontent on the island over economic hardship.
HAVANA — Cuban government officials say over 75% of eligible voters cast ballots Sunday in the legislative election, despite expectations of lower voter turnout due to increasing discontent on the island over economic hardship.
The government said Cubans voted to endorse 470 people running for 470 seats, including candidates chosen in local elections and others representing groups such as labor unions. All the candidates were vetted by Communist Party officials and there were no opposition candidates. “I vote for the revolution because these elections are very important for our electoral system,” she said. “We elect candidates from the base of our society and they are the best people that our neighborhoods have to represent the population.”“I don’t think these elections interest anyone much,” said Fernández, as he fished in Havana’s famed malecón seawall. “They don’t mean anything to me. It’s the same thing. They go to the Assembly and what? Nothing happens.
, writing, “the Cuban people deserve real choices in real elections that feature candidates from more than a single party and beyond the Communist Party.”that “when the only choice is the Communist party and closed committees choose candidates to run unopposed, there is no democracy, only autocracy and misery.”
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