Havana, Cuba: Cubans can consult and comment on the draft laws of the Penal Code and Penal Enforcement, recently published on the website of the National Assembly of People’s Power, the Granma newspaper reported today.
The newspaper points out that citizens, in addition to reading these documents, can express their considerations through the email addresses codigopenal@anpp.gob.cu, for the first, and ejecucionpenal@anpp.gob.cu, for the second project of law.
This is intended to further promote the participation of citizens in the legislative process in the country and contribute to raising its legal culture.
Both regulatory proposals were recently presented by the President of Parliament, Esteban Lazo, as a legislative initiative of the Governing Council of the People’s Supreme Court (TSP).
The one related to the Criminal Code Law responds to the need for updated legislation that includes crimes not previously regulated, such as those related to the environment and cyber-security.
It also ensures the expansion of the rights and guarantees of people, according to constitutional principles, and considers the decriminalization of certain figures, as well as the incorporation of sanctions that do not imply internment.
The bill for the Criminal Enforcement Law, meanwhile, would resolve the legislative dispersion in this matter and encourages the application of conciliatory methods, for the sake of greater harmony in the solution of conflicts, indicates Granma.
Rubén Remigio Ferro, president of the TSP, when presenting these legislative texts before parliament, assured that both “are regulations to defend the people, not only to punish criminal behavior, but also have a high educational and preventive vocation.”
The Cuban authorities insist on expanding democracy through popular participation in government management, as is currently the case with the consultation of citizens on the Family Code.
This is considered a legislative project of the first importance, for whose final wording the proposals of the voters will be taken into account in thousands of meetings, and it will be taken to a referendum for its final approval.