Havana, Cuba: With the presence of the First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Party and President of the Republic of Cuba, Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez, the Seventh Ordinary Period of Sessions of the IX Legislature of the National Assembly of the Popular Power (ANPP), began this morning and will run until tomorrow, October 28, the newspaper Granma publishes.
During this Wednesday?s the morning, with the presence of Esteban Lazo, president of the ANPP and the Council of State, reports will be presented on the progress of the economy in the first half of 2021 and the Liquidation of the State Budget of the 2020, in addition to the Opinion of the Committee on Economic Affairs.
Commanders José Ramón Machado Ventura and Guillermo García Frías are also present, “which constitutes a great honor for all parliamentarians?, Lazo said.
Advances and challenges of the economic strategy, results of the Ordering Task, the contributions of science in the confrontation with the pandemic, in addition to the analysis of the draft laws that – according to the legislative schedule – must be approved, will focus today the debate on the deputies who meet in the Convention Center, as well as in the rooms set up in the rest of the territories, through videoconferences.
As more than 90% of the deputies were present and with a sufficient quorum to hold sessions, Lazo recalled that last July it was necessary to postpone the realization of this Seventh Ordinary Period due to the rise in COVID-19 cases in the country.
Today, in a more favorable epidemiological situation, the sustained decrease in contagion and lethality rates as a result of the measures for containment and confrontation adopted by the government, and the effectiveness of Cuban vaccines, allow us to meet, although – as in other times – virtually.
On the other hand, he made sense to think about the physical disappearance of five deputies in the period from February to date, and as a posthumous tribute, a minute of silence was observed.