Havana, Cuba_ The process to nominate the candidates for delegates to the People's Power municipal assemblies will begin on September 4 with meetings in municipalities and neighborhood people's councils, Prensa Latina reports.

Tomas Amaran, vice president of the National Electoral Commission (CEN), explained that during the rest of the process, the assemblies will not exceed 12 percent of the total to be held in the municipalities.

'Most of them will be held between the second and third week,' said Amaran, who stressed that this is the major election process because it exemplifies democracy in the country.

Amaran described the process as the basis of the system and government structures and added that this is where the people can participate directly, 'as a genuine expression of citizen participation.'

The process to nominate the candidates will conclude on September 30 and will take place in the 45,688 approved areas as part of 12,515 existing districts, he said.

According to the vice president of the electoral body, the candidates nominated will be then elected as delegates to the People's Power municipal assemblies for a two and a half year period.

Up to 50 percent of those elected from the grass-roots 'will be part, for a five-year period, of the delegates to the provincial assemblies and legislators to the National Assembly,' he said.

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