MIAMI, United States. – This Sunday began the referendum on the new Family Code abroad, although only diplomats of the Havana regime and members of state missions will be able to vote.
According to the official media Cubadebatethe regime opened 1,000 qualified schools in different cities of the world.
One of the first to vote was the Cuban Foreign Minister, Bruno Rodríguez Parrilla, who is at the headquarters of the Cuban mission to the United Nations, in New York.
“For the Code that Cuban families deserve, where there is room for everyone, I voted today at the electoral college located in the Permanent Mission of Cuba to the United Nations. #CodigoYes because it reflects our reality and the will of the State to achieve the greatest possible social justice for all Cubans”, tweeted The chancellor.
In Moscow, Ufa and St. Petersburg, “Cubans who work, study or reside in Russia” also began to vote. Cubadebate, without specifying that only representatives of the Havana regime or personnel sent on official missions of a cultural, sports, academic or artistic nature can exercise the “right to vote”.
Due to the regime’s discrimination against the more than two million migrants or exiles on the island, the DemoAmlat project made available to the Cuban diaspora an electronic platform to exercise the (non-binding) vote in the referendum of 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.
This 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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