MIAMI, United States. – The Embassy of the United States in Cuba celebrated on Twitter “the decision of the Cuban people to support marriage equality and adoption privileges for all families” after the ratification in referendum of the new Family Codethis Sunday.
However, in a second tweet the diplomatic headquarters recalled that this did not change “the anti-democratic nature of the regime.”
“The Cuban people deserve respect for all their human rights and their capacity for democratic choice in all areas of life,” said the US representation on the island.
After the first tweet, the journalist Mario J. Pentón I ask to the US Government if it considered that the votes in the referendum “organized without transparency, under harassment of activists and without the right to reply by those who asked for its rejection” had been the “decision of the Cuban people.”
This Monday, hethe president of the National Electoral Council (CEN), Alina Balseiro Gutiérrez, informed the official Cuban press that 66.87% of the voters who went to the polls to vote for the Family Code had ratified the law, while 33.13% had voted no.
According to Balseiro Gutiérrez, 6,251,786 voters voted, representing 74.01% of the basic electoral roll (of 8,447,467 voters).
The CEN reported a total of 5,892,705 valid ballots, that is, 94.25%. In favor of yes, 3,936,790 ballots were counted and in favor of no, 1,950,090.
After the announcement of the ratification of the Code, the high leadership of the Cuban regime and figures related to the ruling party celebrated the results. Among the first to react was the Cuban ruler Miguel Díaz-Canel, one of the main defenders and promoters of the new law.
“It was a vote for Cuba. It was a yes for Cuba. It was a yes for the Revolution”, declared the Cuban leader during a meeting with the top staff of the dictatorship.
“Yes won. Justice has been done. Approving the Family Code is doing justice. It is paying off a debt with several generations of Cuban men and women, whose family projects have been waiting for this Law for years. Starting today, we will be a better nation,” Díaz-Canel later said in his account. Twitter.
Another of the first to react was the first lady, Lis Cuesta Peraza.
“Without a doubt, we are a great people. Cuba voted for its Family Code”, express the wife of the ruler in the same social network.
Mariela Castor Espín, one of the “ideologues” of the Family Code, and the National Center for Sex Education (Cenesex), an organization she directs, also echoed the event.
“It is a victory of epic proportions, perhaps at the worst possible juncture,” Francisco Rodríguez Cruz, a pro-government journalist and LGBTIQ+ activist, declared on his Facebook profile.
“This September 25, 2022, our LGBTIQ+ Revolution has also triumphed, and we have done it like the one we did 63 years ago: with the Cuban people. To build now the sexual Socialism of the 21st century”, added Rodríguez Cruz.
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