Madrid Spain.- The Cuban government published the final version of the Family Code approved by the deputies to the National Assembly of People’s Power and which will be submitted to a popular referendum on September 25.
The official media reported that it is available in the Official Gazette of the Republic of Cuba No. 87, of August 17, 2022.
According to Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel, the new code develops “something extraordinarily novel: affection as a legal value.”
This latest version of the Family Code has 474 articles, five transitory provisions and 45 final provisions.
“This is an inclusive Code, protective and reflective of current Cuban society, which offers alternatives and opportunities and options,” the newspaper said. Granma.
Last April, the Special Electoral Commission, established in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MINREX) of Cuba, reported that it had concluded the consultation of the Family Code among the staff of their embassies and other missions abroad.
According to a tweet from the Foreign Minister of the Cuban regime, Bruno Rodríguez Parrilla, 26,740 voters participated in the consultation and 14,665 interventions and 13,191 proposals were counted.
The previous week, the DemoAmlat Legislative Observatory of Cuba had called “attention to the lack of transparency in what the regime recognizes as a participatory process,” referring to the Family Code.
The observatory denounced that for the government of Havana this process “is reduced to the issuance of comments and/or recommendations on the project that may or may not later be incorporated according to parameters that are unknown up to now.”
According to the Cuban authorities, the “popular consultation” process of the Family Code project in Cuba, developed between February and April last, obtained just over 60% approval.
During the “popular consultations” stage, resistance to the new regulations was evidenced in some sectors of the population, fundamentally in terms of aspects related to the substitution of parental authority for parental responsibility, the progressive autonomy of minors , solidary gestation and same-sex marriage.
Experts explained to CubaNet that “the code does not completely resolve the issue of discrimination. In other words, it is not clear that all forms of discrimination are prohibited. It also only provides for the parents’ obligations to provide food, clothing, etc.; but they do not name the obligations of the state to help parents with it.”
Just as they indicated that “the text is reducing gender-based violence to domestic violence, which is the same argument that the Cuban Government has given in international scenarios, with which other types of aggressions suffered by women on the Island are made invisible, including the political violence towards activists, opponents and journalists”.
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