MADRID, Spain.- This Sunday, November 27, the day the Cuban Government developed the elections of delegates to the Municipal Assemblies of People’s Power, it was revealed on social networks that Leandro Miguel González Pérez, a repressive agent of the State Security of the Ministry of the Interior (MININT), was nominated for delegate by a constituency belonging to the José Martí Popular Council of the municipality Santa Clara.
This agent was the one who, last May, stopped with violence to the activist Saily González, in the middle of the street.
“The abuser of women, a State Security agent who violently detained Saily González in Santa Clara, is a candidate for municipal elections in Cuba… There must be little shame,” said activist Magdiel Jorge Castro.
In its publication Jorge Castro shared the biographical sheet of the repressor as a candidate.
Leandro Miguel González Pérez was born on November 3, 1998 in Encrucijada. During his childhood in primary school he was “exploration and camping chief” and later he entered the Camilo Cienfuegos military school, where he was “platoon leader.” Later he entered the Counterintelligence Unit and currently works in the State Security Department of Crime, according to his biography.
⚠️⚠️The abuser of women, a State Security agent who violently detained @SailydeAmarillo in Santa Clara, he is a candidate for municipal elections in Cuba… you have to be ashamed!!#INoVote pic.twitter.com/XME3hl9wrQ
— Mag Jorge Castro?? (@mjorgec1994) November 27, 2022
Among those who have also denounced this fact, is the digital creator Pedro López, who noted on Facebook: “Once again, in a dictatorship you do not vote, the repressor Leandro, the person in charge of repressing us, of confronting us for a year, because it is one of the candidates for delegates in José Martí, Santa Clara, his biography comments that he has the medal for virtue, Virtue you, Leandro?
The Electoral Transparency Observatory, which has studied the Cuban election system, has declared these elections illegitimate since the electoral system is designed so that the Communist Party (PCC) controls the entire process and prevents free participation.
Starting at seven in the morning this Sunday, the 23,480 polling stations enabled throughout the country opened. However, by 11:00, barely 19% of the voters had voted. This figure is ten points below that reported at the same time in the 2017 elections.
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