Together with the people: accompanying and exchanging

Being close to the people, talking, listening to their concerns and meeting them the candidates for the Chamber of Deputies who can represent them in the Cuban Parliament are prerequisites for the exchanges and trips carried out by those who make up this list the Province of .

Homage to Máximo Gómez in the municipality of El Dátil.

This is evidenced by the two-day tours conducted by the candidates for deputy Oscar Manuel Silveira Martínez, Minister of Justice, and Gabriel Fornáris Cruzata, District Delegate, with residents and workers of Bayamo.

During the exchange, they exchanged views on issues of general interest and emphasized the importance of promoting legal culture in the neighborhoods.

Exchange of MP candidates with residents of the Municipality of El Dátil, Bayamo.

Silveira Martínez, explained her participation in the last days of the hearing before the High Court of England in London in connection with the complaint of the Vulture Fund CRF I Limited with the Banco Nacional de Cuba (BNC) and the Cuban State.

He said that this trial is another attack on the country and “the goal is to secure a conviction of the bank and Cuba and to block the country’s tight access to international financial markets.”

Addressing local residents attending the meeting, he spoke about the US government’s tightening blockade on the island, stressing, “One of the most genocidal measures is preventing the country from accessing credit flows, currency flows that exist in the world and which manages very complex to circumvent these measures, for the success of our international relations.

He added that every Cuban should be interested in learning more about the changes contained in the Constitution adopted in 2019 and the legal provisions associated with this law of laws.

Meeting of the candidates for deputies with residents of the Municipality of El Horno, Bayamo

“The Constitution brings with it what many of us call the tsunami effect. It is new, it reinforces the socialist, revolutionary character of our economic and political project, and it brought a series of updates, changes that we had to necessarily adapt to the whole of the 21st century.

He said that the law of laws must be developed and that it will be acquired with the adoption of new legal norms. He added that since April 10, 2019 so far, 35 laws and 86 legislative decrees have been passed, and the basic goal is for people to own and comply with them.

For his part, candidate for deputy Gabriel Fornáris Cruzata emphasized that popular representation is a very complex task that requires responsibility, seriousness and a lot of commitment.

At each site visited, those present demonstrated their trust and support for those who could represent them in the National Assembly and highlighted the opportunity to engage with them.

This happened at the Bayamo nursing home, in the municipality of Las Tamara, where 93 patients receive 24-hour care and where they met Sobeida Pompa González.

Sobeida, 92 years old, has been at this institution for 30 years and in verses congratulated the candidates for deputies and thanked them for their interest in the well-being of grandparents.

During their journey, they paid homage to Máximo Gómez in the parish of El Dátil, the place where he lived with his mother and sister.

In addition, they exchanged views with electrical workers working in power generation units and the Bayamo Mechanical Company, with specialists and patients at the Psychopedagogical Medical Center, with farmers linked to pig production, and with teachers and students at the Reynerio Almaguer Paz Elementary School and the William Soler Mixed Center.

Until March 24th, the 34 candidates for deputies to the Cuban Parliament for the province of will exchange ideas with residents and workers of this eastern territory and it will be an opportunity for the people to meet their candidates.