MIAMI, United States. — Independent civil society in Cuba and Cuban activists outside the island have denounced in different media and platforms the upcoming municipal elections promoted by Castroism, and whose first round is scheduled for next Sunday.
Faced with this scenario, the “I do not vote” campaign has added numerous voices that agree that the electoral process taking place in Cuba is neither legitimate nor credible.
The journalist Mónica Baró Sánchez, one of the promoters of the initiative, assures that it is not possible to vote when the delegates have already been previously selected by the Communist Party of Cuba (PCC) and when there are not even dissident candidates.
“There is a debate about what is the most suitable or strategic position to face this moment. My position, in this case, is that you do not participate. You do not participate because those delegates are previously selected. There is no one among them who represents the diversity of the country that we are,” said the activist in statements to CubaNet.
According to Baró, the best thing that can be done before the municipal elections is not to go to the polls and make it clear that the people do not support this illegitimate mechanism.
“If we search within ourselves for what is good, what is right and what is just, the answer is not very difficult to find. It is not very difficult to realize the evil of the system, how it tries to cancel a part of our people,” explained Aram Zaldívar Rodríguez, a Cuban activist based in the United States.
The young man assured that citizenship exercises such as rejecting the call for municipal elections have the capacity to connect society, as was the case with initiatives such as the San Isidro barracks, among others.
“Cuba is a dictatorship wherever you look at it. The defenselessness of the individual before a machine of this type is tremendous, and frightening,” said Zaldívar.
In the past week, the Amlat Demo platformpromoted by the Electoral Transparency organization, maintained that the vote of Cubans will have no value in the upcoming elections for delegates to the Municipal Assemblies of Popular Power (AMPP).
Demo Amlat stressed that the Cuban electoral system is designed so that the Communist Party (PCC) controls the entire process, since it appoints the electoral authorities and selects who can “compete” for the positions, a maxim that would leave activists out of the game opponents or any citizen not aligned with the guidelines of Castroism.
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