The Cubans who are outside the Island in state functions vote this Sunday for the referendum to the Family Code. The event occurs in about a thousand electoral colleges distributed in 124 points with which the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Minrex) has, according to one information of Latin Press.
The Foreign Ministry has disclosed on its social networks that they have cast their vote in several diplomatic offices, including the delegation that will participate this week in the High-Level Segment of the General Debate of the 77th Regular Session of the United Nations General Assembly (UN ). From New York, the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Cuba, Bruno Rodríguez, cast his vote.
Cuban Foreign Minister @BrunoRguezPvote from New York in the referendum of the #CodeOfTheFamilies.
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— Cuban Foreign Ministry (@CubaMINREX) September 18, 2022
Alina Balseiro, president of the National Electoral Council, had said on the Mesa Redonda program that “citizens who are outside borders in state missions, and who could exercise their right in more than a thousand schools authorized for that purpose.”
The referendum on the Family Code will be put to a vote on Sunday, September 25 in Cuba.
Balseiro stressed that “there is no precedent for a referendum of this type in the country, so the preparation of the documentation and the electoral system, to guarantee transparency and adherence to legality and processes, has been much more intense. ”, published PL.
The Minister of Justice, Oscar Silvera, quoted by the Cuban agency, added that this new Code “protects human dignity, all family law institutions, eliminates any vestige of discrimination in the family sphere and rejects violence.”
The Family Code has been considered innovative by various groups of Cuban civil society because, among other guarantees, it grants the possibility of marrying people of the same sex.
Final preparations for referendum on the Family Code outside of Cuba
This regulation has been interpreted by the lgbt community as a fact of vindication and social justice and the achievement of their human rights. The Family Code, on the other hand, was rejected by the catholic church in an official statementl replicated by the Vatican news agency.
The Minrex reported that for this process abroad they set 123 electoral districts in which they enabled 1008 electoral colleges in more than 120 countries.
