Las Tunas_ The popular consultation of the Constitution Project of the Republic of Cuba began in the Agricultural Production Cooperative (CPA) Calixto Sarduy with the participation of the affiliates and other inhabitants of the locality of Becerra, in the northern part of this city in eastern Cuba. As "revolutionary, and dynamic”, called the document Juan Cabera, one of the participants.

Within the Magna Carta, the title related to the rights and guarantees of citizenship focused the attention of the majority of those who took the floor. In particular, the opinions focused on the rights to work, employment and education; in the definition of marriage as the union of two people with legal capacity to do so, as well as in the social obligations of the family and the State.

Being this the first in the territory, the meeting was attended by Máximo Labrada Álvarez, member of the Executive Bureau of the Provincial Committee of the Party; Juan Guerra, president of theNational Association of Small Farmers (ANAP) and other representatives of different institutions and organizations of the municipality.

The popular consultation of the Constitution Project, which began on August 13, will run until November 15 and will include 6,446 similar appointments in work centers, student collectives, union sections of self-employed workers, military units, neighborhoods and rural communities. These meetings will be guided by 263 duos under the principle of respect for all opinions, as occurred in previous processes, such as the Guidelines for the Economic and Social Policy of the Party and the Revolution.

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