MIAMI, United States.- Venezuelan dictator Nicolás Maduro turned to Twitter on Monday to congratulate Cubans for their participation in the “historic” referendum that approved the new Family Code on the island, held this Sunday. .
“I congratulate the Cuban people for the extraordinary participation in the popular referendum on the Family Code, approved with more than 60% of the popular vote,” Maduro wrote on his Twitter account.
And he continued: this “historic day continues to deepen the revolutionary struggle for the protection of families.”
The new Cuban legal reform, which includes equal marriage and surrogacy, was approved, according to the National Electoral Council (CEN) of Cuba, with 66.87% of the votes in popular consultation.
According to the Havana government, the “yes” vote received 3,936,790 votes, 66.87% of those cast, while the “no” vote received 1,950,090 ballots, 33.13%.
After the announcement of the ratification of the Code, the high leadership of the Cuban regime and figures related to the ruling party celebrated the results. Among the first to react was the Cuban ruler Miguel Díaz-Canel, one of the main advocates and promoters of the new law.
“It was a vote for Cuba. It was a yes for Cuba. It was a yes for the Revolution,” Díaz-Canel said during a meeting with the dictatorship’s top brass.
“Yes won. Justice has been done. Approving the Family Code is doing justice. It is paying off a debt with several generations of Cuban men and women, whose family projects have been waiting for this Law for years. Starting today, we will be a better nation, ”he wrote shortly after on his Twitter social network account.
Another of the first to react was the first lady, Lis Cuesta Peraza. “Without a doubt, we are a great people. Cuba voted for its Family Code”, she also wrote on Twitter.
The event was also echoed by Mariela Castor Espín, one of the “ideologues” of the Family Code, and the National Center for Sex Education (Cenesex), an organization she directs, and the official journalist and LGBTIQ+ activist Francisco Rodríguez Cruz: “It is a victory of epic proportions, perhaps at the worst possible juncture.”
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