Havana Cuba. – Editorials of the newspaper Granmacorresponding to February 5 and 12, are dedicated to defending the image of the electoral process that takes place in the country, and whose culmination will take place on March 26, when voters are summoned to give their approval at the polls to the list of candidates selected by the regime to form the new Legislature of the National Assembly of Popular Power.
In the journalistic text of February 5 the presence of democracy in Cuba is insisted on despite the fact that there are no plurality of political parties. It is pointed out that “multipartisanship is, with all due respect to the majority of contemporary societies that consider it a guarantee of democracy, a fragmentation of the nation’s political forces, with a supreme goal: to dispute power.”
Curiously, this new class that holds power in Cuba does not want the nation’s political forces to fragment now. Sure, they are the ones on top, and therefore they want all of society to unite around their supremacy. Let no one dare dispute his power. Very different happens when they or their clan are in opposition. So they don’t think about the unity of the nation. In these conditions they battle against the other political forces for the sake of their ideological designs gaining ground.
But, if, as can be seen, their darts are directed against the political parties, they could begin by dissolving their Communist Party. It is very likely that a society without political parties works better than one where one party prevails. There would be less bureaucracy, that parallel power that exists today in Cuba (Party on one side and Government on the other) would disappear, and that complicates everything, and the exclusions that now keep those who demonstrate in protest as second-class citizens would end. against the ideology of that single party.
And the aforementioned editorial adds: “Cuba has already known and practiced multipartyism and the people always lost in the fight of the parties.” With such an affirmation, the work of the different political parties is olympically ignored when the Constitution of 1940which gave progressive nuances to that Magna Carta. Granma It does not say that thanks to the multiparty system that reigned then, the Cuban communists of the Popular Socialist Party were able to participate in those debates and contribute an infinite number of ideas.
The editorial of February 12For his part, he praises the non-existence in Cuba of electoral propaganda between the different candidates, as happens in societies where elections do offer valid alternatives for voters.
Well, here we can also suggest something to the machinery of power: if you hate electoral propaganda, you can start by eliminating the one that takes place in Cuba every time an election, referendum or plebiscite is called. Only that on this island propaganda can only be carried out by Castroism, the absolute owner of the media in the country.
It must be remembered that in the votes to approve the Constitution of the Republic in 2019, and in the recent referendum on Family Codeall the propaganda of the regime in the written press, radio and television was put in function of the citizens voting YES.
And now in the next elections for deputies to the National Assembly, the propaganda will be for the “united vote.” That is, put an X in an upper circle that appears on the ballots. In this way, it is ensured that all the regime’s candidates are selected.
Actually, Granma it could have saved paper, ink and other material resources that are so scarce in the country. They are not going to fool anyone with their propaganda and their imitation of elections.
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