Popular Consultation of the Family Code Project concluded in Ciego de Ávila

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Concluyó consulta popular del Proyecto de Código de las Familias en Ciego de Ávila

In mid-April, Ciego de Ávila concluded the popular consultation process for the Family Code project, which, according to the provincial electoral authorities, was carried out as planned and with good results.

Marleny Báez Valdivia, vice president of the Provincial Electoral Council, told Invasor that the most populous municipalities, Ciego de Ávila and Morón, were the last to complete the scheduled meetings, plus other consultation spaces that took place in the heat of the intense analysis and debate of the new code.

Thus, the proposals included in the renewed standard were also discussed in large labor and student groups, with emphasis on university centers and Higher Secondary, and Technical and Professional Education, where the parents of the students were included.

Báez Valdivia assessed the process as positive and, although she did not give details about its statistics, she said that there were numerous interventions in support of the Code, as well as well-founded proposals.

Judging by what happened in Morón, where some 2,000 proposals were collected, the most recurrent themes turned around same-sex marriage, the adoption of minors, and matters related to guarantees for the elderly and disabled. The note published by the local radio station of the Rooster City reports a majority approval of the new Family Code, based on the interventions.

The province scheduled just over 3,000 consultations, in compliance with the eleventh provision of the Constitution of the Republic ─which established a period of two years to start the popular consultation and referendum of the Draft Code..., but the effects of the COVID-19 epidemic delayed it.

During the first session of the IV Plenum of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba, the official Mariela Rondón Pereña reported that until April 13, more than 79,000 meetings were held and, in a first cut, more than 397,000 opinions were received and more than 5000 proposals from the population. She also said that with 1,159 meetings and an attendance of 97 percent, the consultation abroad ended.

Rondón Pereña explained that the favorable opinions and total acceptance of the Code represented, at the time of the cut, more than 60 percent, followed by the proposals for modification with 20.38 percent. The most repeated themes alluded to marriage, parental responsibility and solidarity gestation, according to the report of the Cuban News Agency.

As part of the analysis, the First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Party and President of the Republic, Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez, "called for perfecting the work of the jurists in pursuit of a greater understanding, by the population, of the terms properly legislative and bring the speeches closer to the people”. He added that the communication strategy must be rethought, more drinkable for different audiences, create didactic, creative, ethical and aesthetic content that mobilizes and stimulates information.

On May 14, the Fifth Extraordinary Session of the National Assembly of People's Power, in its IX Legislature, the second and third points of the day's agenda foresee the presentation of the report of the National Electoral Council on the results of the popular consultation process of the draft Family Code, and information from the Minister of Justice on the work of the Drafting Commission of the Draft Family Code, based on the results of the popular consultation.