12 de febrero de 2025

Radio 26 – Matanzas, Cuba

Emisora provincial de Matanzas, Cuba, La Radio de tu Corazón

The institution of the Constitutional Reform in Cuba (III).

A constitutional reform depends on the meanings, functions and purposes assigned to it by the government, from which its proposal is born.

The challenges for a total reform of the Constitution are considered cardinal, because in this process it must be clear to us that they are often confused in practice with the urgencies and circumstances, needs, mistakes, failures, successes and decisions of the exercise of the government of the country, also with the criticisms, perceptions, opportunities, criteria and ideas that Cuban citizens elaborate in their daily lives in order to transform their reality.

A constitutional reform depends on the meanings, functions and purposes assigned to it by the government, from which the proposal for its implementation is born. It is necessary to take into account the way in which the reform is presented to Cuban society and also its context. The frameworks of constitutional endorsement must take into account the economic transformations that take place and the proposal of a time limit for the exercise of the popular mandate that serves as a matrix for the positions of representation and public and political leadership.

These issues represent the axes of a very specific road map, which implied at the time, not only the modification of the Constitution, but also of the Cuban Electoral Law. Curiously, the announcement warned that the reform would be endorsed by a popular referendum – that is, it would have to be ratified by the favorable vote of the majority of the citizenry. This indicated, unless it was said on that occasion without emphasis on the articles of the Constitution, the dimensions and scope that this process could have, since the constitutional text establishes that the referendum is appropriate when the reform affects: 1) the integration and powers of the National Assembly of People’s Power or its Council of State, 2) or rights and duties enshrined in the Constitution.

Written by Osvaldo Manuel Álvarez Torres D. in Political Science. Consulting Professor.

 

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