Democracy returned to say present this Friday when, in 71 nomination areas of the province, the direct and show of hands vote of its voters designated the first candidates for delegates of the municipal assemblies of People's Power, in a day that marked the start of this process in Ciego de Ávila.

According to Invasor, Osvaldo Álvarez Díaz, president of the Provincial Electoral Council (CEP), during the next three weeks, 1,958 assemblies of this type will be completed throughout the territory, in the same number of nomination areas, as a space in which the neighbors will have the opportunity to elect the most capable to represent them in this superior body of state power.

It was precisely for this reason that, on the night of this October 21, he brought together the residents of District Three of the City Center People's Council, in the provincial capital, belonging to nomination area one, who, after making their proposals, chose by majority of votes to Xiomara Sánchez, who currently serves as a delegate of the aforementioned demarcation.

For Tamara Madrazo Suárez, president of the Electoral Commission of said constituency, these types of meetings are a sign of the most genuine democracy that reigns in Cuba, since, at first, each voter has the opportunity to propose the person who, for its merits, it considers that it meets the conditions to represent them with dignity and then, by secret and direct vote, the delegates are elected. "But the proposals come from the neighbors who know each other, who see each other and share the day to day in the neighborhood."

Madrazo Suárez added that, once this step is completed in all the nomination areas that cover the constituency, the photo and autobiography of the elected candidates will be published in visible places, as well as the updating of the voter lists.

The president of the CEP recalled that, in accordance with article 11 of the Electoral Law, for a Cuban citizen in full enjoyment of his civil and political rights to be elected as a delegate to the Municipal Assembly of People's Power, he must have turned sixteen years of age, reside in an electoral constituency of their municipality and have been nominated as a candidate in it.

Those who are elected in these assemblies will form the ballot that will go to the municipal elections, scheduled to take place, in its first round, on November 27; whereas, those constituencies in which none of the candidates obtain more than 50 percent of the valid votes cast, must carry out a second round, set for December 4.

The meeting was attended by Liván Izquierdo Alonso, member of the Central Committee of the Party and its first secretary in the province, Deputy Governor Ania Rosa Francisco Malde, and other political and governmental authorities of the territory.