This Wednesday, April 19, a date of special historical significance for Cuba, the National Assembly of People's Power (ANPP, Parliament) will be constituted in its X Legislature, the result of the election process of recent months.

The constitutive session will take place at the Havana Convention Center and will mark a new five-year period, in which the 470 deputies elected on election day on March 26 will have the high responsibility of representing the interests of the people.

After the ANPP is constituted, as part of the agenda, its president, vice president, secretary and other members of the Council of State will be elected, as well as the president and vice president of the Republic.

Regarding the deputies that will make up this X Legislature, the National Electoral Council (CEN) has previously reported that they were elected with more than 61 percent of the valid votes cast, by the free, equal, direct and secret vote of the voters.

Official data from the CEN confirms that 20 percent of the deputies that make up the X Legislature are young people between 18 and 35 years of age, therefore it will be the youngest since the creation of Popular Power in 1976, in addition to representing diversity of sectors and more than 200 are base delegates.

The number of 470 deputies to the ANPP is not accidental either, since according to Electoral Law No. 127 Parliament is made up of deputies elected at the rate of one for every thirty thousand inhabitants of a municipality or fraction greater than fifteen thousand, which is your constituency.

This Wednesday, and according to the law, the supreme body of State power will elect its president, vice president, secretary and other members of the Council of State from among its deputies.

The Magna Carta of the Republic of Cuba establishes that the members of the Council of Ministers, nor the highest authorities of the judicial, electoral and state control bodies cannot be part of this body.In addition, its functions include issuing decree-laws and agreements, ordering the holding of extraordinary sessions of the ANPP, and calling and agreeing on the date of the elections.

According to the Cuban constitutional text, the Assembly also elects the President and Vice President of the Republic; In the case of the former, his figure is that of Head of State and to be elected the favorable vote of an absolute majority is required.

The President of the Republic, -provides the Constitution in its article 126-, is a deputy to Parliament and can hold office for up to two consecutive terms, after which he cannot hold it again.

On the day, the National Assembly, at the proposal of the President of the Republic, will appoint the Prime Minister, whose figure requires the favorable vote of the absolute majority to perform in the role for five years.

The Prime Minister must be a deputy to the National Assembly of Popular Power, have reached thirty-five years of age, be in full enjoyment of civil and political rights, be a Cuban citizen by birth and have no other citizenship, taking into account the requirements established in article 143 of the Magna Carta.

Thus, the period for the exercise of the positions in the Cuban constitutional design is five years in a uniform manner, which allows the simultaneous renewal of both elective and designated positions.Also at the proposal of the President of the Republic, the ANPP will designate the vice prime ministers, and other members of the Council of Ministers, a body with a collegiate nature and whose decisions are adopted by the favorable vote of the simple majority of its members.