MIAMI, United States. – The DemoAmlat project made available to the Cuban diaspora ―which the island’s regime prevents them from participating in elections and referendums― an electronic platform to exercise the (non-binding) vote in the next referendum on the Family Code.
DemoAmlat starts by recognizing that the Cuban diaspora “has not stopped growing since the arrival of the ‘Revolution’ and that at this moment it is growing exponentially due to the deepening of the persecution and the criminalization of dissidence evidenced in the protests of July 11, 2021”.
The organization also recalls that “Cubans abroad suffer a double exclusion: not only are they forced to leave their country, but they lose their political rights once they migrate.”
“While 16 countries in the region guarantee the right to vote for their citizens abroad in accordance with the provisions of different international instruments, the Cuban Electoral Law prevents, through the requirement of ‘effective residence’, that more than 2 million of residents abroad exercise their right to vote.
According to the legislation of the Cuban regime, the only people outside the Island who can exercise the right to vote are members of the Government – who hold diplomatic positions – and their families; as well as those that are part of sports missions, health, among others.
“To make visible the restriction of these rights and promote an exercise in citizen participation, Electoral Transparency and DemoAmlat offer a technological platform so that residents abroad can register and vote (although the result is not binding) in the referendum of the Code of the Families to be held on September 25″, indicates DemoAmlat’s note.
According to this project, it is the first experience of diaspora organization from an electoral perspective. “This tool will allow those who suffer this double exclusion to be linked to the political affairs of the Island” and will begin “the preparation of a list of Cuban men and women abroad, essential for the analysis and design of policies for this group and their recipient countries.
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