Havana: Cuba applies the new Constitution and reinforces its institutionalism today after the National Assembly of Popular Power (ANPP) elected the highest state offices, Prensa Latina publishes.

The Magna Carta promulgated in April set a deadline to elect the president and vice president of the Republic, and the presidency of the National Assembly, whose members approved the day before with the vote of the deputies head the Council of State, entity that represents the Parliament between sessions of the legislative body.

Before, in July, the National Electoral Council, the National Candidacies Commission and the Electoral Law had been approved.

This is how the 10th extraordinary session of the IX Legislature was reached this October 10, in which Miguel Díaz-Canel, who since April 2018 served as president of the Councils of State and Ministers, was elected as president of the Republic.

On the same day Esteban Lazo was ratified at the head of the ANPP and the State Council, in a redistribution of functions determined by the magna Carta.

The vice presidents of the Republic, Salvador Valdés Mesa, and Ana María Mari Machado, remain in those responsibilities, and Homero Acosta will serve as secretary of the ANPP and the State Council.

Under the principle of not being a judge and party and by constitutional mandate, in the new State Council there are no ministers nor are the holders of the Supreme Court of Justice, the Attorney General's Office or the Comptroller's Office.

In another novelty, there will be no indefinite election of the head of state, as established by the Constitution approved in 1976.

Díaz-Canel will govern until 2023 when the current parliament term ends. Then he can aspire to another mandate, and last, of five years.

According to the Magna Carta, the president of the Republic must be 35 years of age and no more than 60 years in the term.

In the coming months the Cuban Parliament must pass numerous laws that will give life to the Constitution and will constitute other milestones in the country's institutionalism.

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