Havana, Cuba_ The modifications in the definition of individual rights, greater clarity in the forms of ownership and possible changes in the structure of the State are issues that have aroused profound debate in the analysis of the Draft Constitution of the Republic of Cuba.
In the Union of Jurists in Cienfuegos lawyers of collective law firms and jurists leafed through the document in a final review of what called their attention to consciously participate in the democratic exercise that will reform the Magna Carta, Radio Havana Cuba publishes.
Notes at the bottom of the page, on the back, hurried notes written on the legs or with the support of a wall confirmed the previous reading of the document. Each citizen present obtained a copy of the text if they did not have it, so that the debate flowed organized and efficiently.
The exchange took place with the guidance of officials of the Communist Party and Fidel Raúl Jiménez, president of the Union of Jurists in the territory. The first approaches highlighted the importance of involving the people in this sociopolitical process and stressed that citizens do not have full knowledge of their rights and duties, and these assemblies also point towards them.
The professor and jurist Jorge Luis Delgado, in the title referred to the Economic Fundamentals, article 21, clause d, on the recognition of the forms of property, considered it prudent to refer to the officially recognized political and mass organizations, "so that there is no a mistaken one that finds a gap there”, he said.
The following article of the section itself provoked several opinions among the participants for being "the most open to interpretations", as described by the young Carlos Manuel Alfonso. The enunciation of "limits compatible with socialist values of equity and social justice” provoked his uncertainty regarding the concentration of property in natural or legal non-state persons, as stated in the text.
In this sense, Carlos Manuel asked the following questions to be recorded in the minutes: "What are these limits? What is the secondary norm that will regulate them? ».
Although certain topics of the Constitution Project did not motivate many criteria, the rights, duties and guarantees took up most of the afternoon. Identified with such provisions, the operators of law in Cienfuegos proposed several modifications to this title.
Luis Jorge Sarría, already experienced in the activity, made reference to what he recognizes as the maximum aspiration of his sector. Regarding subsection f of article 48, he pointed out the need for it to be registered as an individual right to receive legal assistance to exercise its defense from the moment of detention.
Likewise, Roberto Fernández Acea pointed out that the disposition of a lawyer takes too long, since among the processes executed by the police, the instructor and the prosecutor spend ten days. He also clarified that the term legal assistance is too broad, when it should refer to the services of a lawyer.
The audience agreed to add to Article 48 that "the first thing that should be promoted is the claim of civil rights, property and family with the due process representation”, Juana Gudelia Rodríguez said.
Carlos Manuel Alfonso was a leading voice on different issues. He showed marked interest in the structure proposed for the State and in the role of the President and Vice President of the Republic. He considered functional the current organization, and also propose more meetings of the actors of the provinces and greater dynamism in the proposal of laws and regulations" so as not to have, for example, a Family Code so long lived. One more step does not do well; it is bureaucratizing more the society ».
The workers of the electricity company in Isla de la Juventud successfully developed the first of the 1,151 popular consultations of the Constitution Project of the Republic of Cuba planned in this Special Municipality - as in the rest of the country - until November 15 next.
At the meeting, which was attended by directors of the entity, specialists, workers and local authorities, seven modifications were proposed to the document and a doubt was clarified, while the participants supported the new Project, after listening to the notes of the National Anthem and the instruction. The young Adria Duvergel referred to the compulsory nature of children, adolescents and young people to study; "However, we do not speak in that same obligatory tone about work".
In that sense, Yosvany Hernandez, stressed that a differentiation should be implemented to receive the benefits of the socialist revolution between those who contribute and those who do not. "There are people who live on remittances or other income, that is valid, but they cannot be on equal terms with those who work”, he suggested.
Another issue that promoted the discussion was related to Title III (President and Vice President of the Republic), in which Ramón Duvergel suggested that the person elected as President, after fulfilling the established terms, could be eligible again if their results and capacity deserves it.
"I suggest it would not be limited to two mandates: more than that period should not be consecutive, but that if the person has the capacity and the merits he or she can return to be President in another period," he explained.
Manuel Cabrera proposed greater flexibility in the age of retirement. "There are professions in which you can reach 65 years without difficulties, but in others with a greater physical load such as mechanics, mine, and at 60 the toolbox is e very heavy”, he said.
At the conclusion of the debate, Liván Fuentes, vice president of the Municipal Assembly of Popular Power, acknowledged the quality of the interventions, while reminding that "this exercise of democracy will contribute to achieving a Constitution tempered by our times and the principles of Cuban socialism”.
The new figures of the President and Vice President of the Republic, reflected in the articles of the Constitution Project, was one of the aspects most analyzed in a meeting in Havana’s neighborhood, Kohly.
In the first assembly of zone 10, belonging to the popular council 7 Ceiba Kohly, the doubt expressed by the neighbor Enrique Avila was related to the existence of such figures, in addition to those of President and Vice President of the State Council.
When clarifying the aspect before a little less than a hundred of people congregated in the meeting for the popular consultation, Ivette Almeida, member of the duo that guided the debates, pointed out that the President and Vice President of the Republic are two new figures instituted in the proposal of the Constitution, as stated in his article 104.
She added that in the case of the State Council, the novelty is that its president, vice president and secretary are also members of the National Assembly of People's Power, of which it is its permanent body.
Also, the deputy and Hero of the Republic of Cuba Arnaldo Tamayo, neighbor of the zone, assessed that it means "strong changes", and that the division of functions and faculties of those figures and the corresponding state and governmental bodies are well established in the new Law of Laws.
Javier Baró said that he should reach 70 years the age limit to be elected president of the Republic, instead of 60 years of age, as proposed by the constitutional project, which will be debated throughout the country until November 15 next.
Another of the concerns of the participants in the meeting was related with Title VIII, linked to the local bodies of the Popular Power and the proposal to eliminate the provincial assemblies and its administrative body and establish, instead, a provincial government.
In the matter of Political Foundations, collected in Title I of the Constitution, citizen Senén Casas said that in the Article 11 should be added that the State exercises its sovereignty over cyberspace, being this an area of maximum importance, in addition to those exposed in the section itself, such as natural resources.
The neighbor Karina Soto intervened to request "that it be clear that education and health are free and universal rights in all its extension", because in her opinion, in Article 83 of the Draft Constitution is ambiguous in that it states that "the law defines the way in which health services are provided "
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