Next March 26th, when the 912 polling stations that will function in the province for the election of deputies to the National Assembly of People's Power open their doors, Ciego de Ávila can carry out a democratic exercise with the highest possible quality. It was the purpose with which this Sunday the dynamic test took place, aimed at evaluating the existing conditions in the places enabled for suffrage and the preparation of the electoral authorities at different levels.
Osvaldo Álvarez Díaz, president of the Provincial Electoral Council (CEP), described the execution of the preparation exercise as successful, which, in the first part, focused on checking that each polling station had the necessary conditions for its proper functioning, while verifying the assurance of transportation, communication and food plans, essential to carry out a process without setbacks.
As a result, he explained, in the municipalities of Ciego de Ávila and Morón there were incidents associated, basically, with electrical problems in certain polling stations, others that could not open at the agreed time due to not having the key, as well as the absence of some electoral authorities, mainly due to personal problems, but that will be incorporated on election day, issues that will have to be worked on, together with political and administrative sponsors, during the course of this week, so that everything can be ready before the coming Sunday.
From Electoral District No.1, based at the Ernesto Guevara Pre-University Institute, in the provincial capital, Iván Andrés Paz Pérez de Corcho, its president, told Invasor that the day was fruitful, since the members of the Auxiliary Group of Information Processing, in charge of receiving the parties and the documentation that must be issued by the 123 electoral colleges that comprise this district, and in which more than 56,000 voters may exercise their right to vote.
Likewise, the effectiveness of the communication systems was verified so that the information can flow without any problem.
During a tour of various polling stations in the main city, Liván Izquierdo Alonso, a member of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba and its first secretary in the province, and Governor Tomás Alexis Martín Venegas, learned first-hand, by exchanging with electoral authorities and factors of the community, on the preparations that have been developed in each constituency to prepare the conditions for these national elections, in which transparency, ethics and legality must prevail.
Izquierdo Alonso highlighted the importance of the constant communication that must exist between the polling stations and the support groups during the course of the voting, at the same time that he reminded the members of the polling stations of the role they must play that day in the orientation to voters so that no one is left without knowing how to vote.
"March 26th must also be a holiday in the neighborhood," he said, for which it will be crucial to maintain the vitality of the polling stations and their surroundings from the opening to the closing of the voting.
According to data provided by the CEP, next Sunday around 321,000 voters will have to go to the polls in Ciego de Ávila to elect those who will represent us in the National Assembly of People's Power.