Communist Party congress set for April 2016

HAVANA.- The Seventh Congress of the Communist Party of Cuba (CPC) will be held in April of next year, according to the prime-time telecast of the National Newscast on Monday (Feb. 23.)

The announcement was made during the Tenth Plenum of the Central Committee, which was presided by its first secretary, Army Gen. Raúl Castro Ruz.

With a view to the 2016 Congress, municipal and provincial assemblies will be held beginning next April, as well as a referendum of the population, same as the one held before the previous Congress.

According to the telecast, the Plenum approved a package of measures and decisions that should be dealt with between 2015 and 2018. Among these is the extension to the entire country of the model of the Local Organizations of the People’s Power, which has been implemented on an experimental basis in the western provinces of Mayabeque and Artemisa, where the purely administrative functions operate separately from the local legislative institution.

The Plenum stressed as very important the legislative activities in the forthcoming years, the partial elections in April that will lead to the general elections, and the enactment of a new electoral law.

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