The Family Code, the only new law on which the authorities have asked Cubans for an opinion, will be voted on in a referendum next September. It was announced this Wednesday, without giving a precise date, by President Miguel Díaz-Canel, as reported by Latin Press.
The rule is being redrafted, explains the state agency, after being changed almost half of the textwhich was discussed by neighborhoods in meetings throughout the Island between the months of February and April.
Díaz-Canel said that it is entering “a decisive stage of the project, in which the emancipatory and equality principles of the Code must be explained person by person, family by family,” which suggests that it will be presented again to citizens in neighborhood meetings.
The rule is being redrafted, explains the state agency, after almost half of the text has been changed
According to the official note, more than six million people participated in the debates on the text held in those months and made “around 434,860 proposals, more than 60% of them with positive opinions.”
Similarly, the report repeats what was known a few weeks ago: that the “consultative process” led to the modification of 47.55% of the provisions contained in the version of the project presented to the public, the twenty-third of all those prepared. Again, they do not detail what specific changes were made and clarify that they are fundamentally “issues related to form, wording and style”.
At the end of May, Amada Zequeira Angarica, president of the Provincial Electoral Council of Cienfuegos, said and n an interview to the local press that marriage and adoption in same-sex couples, gestation in solidarity and the order of surnames had been the most commented topics in the meetings of the province, and in a meeting a few weeks ago an issue that will change was very clearly identified: the so-called solidarity gestation.
This legal figure, known as surrogacy or surrogacy in other countries, is very controversial in the world and, in fact, is recognized in few countries. It has been regulated by Canada, some US states, Russia, Ukraine, Georgia, Greece, UK, Australia and India, and is subject to many conditions. In some of these cases, economic compensation or remuneration is avoided, compared to other countries where it is common. Cuba would opt for the first model, according to the latest version of the Family Code that prohibited any type of payment.
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