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==Candidate Nominations== ==Candidate Nominations==


In theory, no political party, including the ], is permitted to nominate or campaign for any candidate, but this isn't true. Instead, candidates are hand picked by the top hierarchy of the Party. Candidates do not have to be affiliated to any party or organization to be nominated, because there is only one party and all legal organizations are controlled by the Cuban regime. No political party, including the ], is permitted to nominate or campaign for any candidate. However, since the Communist Party is the only legal party in Cuba, it is extremely difficult, if not next to impossible, to gain political clout without becoming a member of the Communist Party. Candidates are nominated at local levels by the local population at small "Town Hall" type meetings.


Suffrage is afforded to Cuban citizens resident for two years on the island who are aged over sixteen years and who have not been found guilty of a criminal offence. But this again is only in theory, since Castro and his cronies are allowed to vote and they have been committing crimes for 47 years. Suffrage is afforded to Cuban citizens resident for two years on the island who are aged over sixteen years and who have not been found guilty of a criminal offence.


==Municipal Elections, 2005== ==Municipal Elections, 2005==

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Elections in Cuba gives information on election and election results in Cuba.

Cuba elects a national legislature, the National Assembly of People's Power (Asamblea Nacional de Poder Popular), which has 601 members, every five years.

Municipal assemblies are elected every two and a half years.

Candidate Nominations

No political party, including the Communist Party of Cuba, is permitted to nominate or campaign for any candidate. However, since the Communist Party is the only legal party in Cuba, it is extremely difficult, if not next to impossible, to gain political clout without becoming a member of the Communist Party. Candidates are nominated at local levels by the local population at small "Town Hall" type meetings.

Suffrage is afforded to Cuban citizens resident for two years on the island who are aged over sixteen years and who have not been found guilty of a criminal offence.

Municipal Elections, 2005

The turnout in the previous municipal elections was reported to be 95.76%. After a massive campaign to get more people to vote, Justice Minister Roberto Diaz Sotolongo of Cuba's National Electoral Commission reported that approximately 8.2 million Cubans of the country's population of approximately 11 million elected 169 municipal assemblies on Sunday 17th April, 2005.

In summary:

  • 96.66% of registered voters cast ballots, of which
  • more than 90% of ballots were in favour of the nominations list.
  • More than 600,000 citizens were involved in the preparation of
  • 37,280 polling stations, in which
  • 13,949 deputies were elected, of which
  • 52.48% were incumbent.

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