The 1495 electoral college, distributed on the 13 population of Matanzas were declarative ready to develop the General Elections of Deputies to the National Assemble of Cuba.

524,276 people from Matanzas must attend the polls, for this purpose 54 Special Colleges were set up in hospitals, sugar mills and the Juan Gualberto Gómez airport.

More than thousand of pioneers have at their charged the custody of the polls, next to collaborates, supervises, judges teams, university students and professors participate in the elections in the province.

6:30

At the Juan Ripoll García primary school, everything was ready on this electoral day to elect the Deputies to the National Assembly of People’s Power. On this occasion, more than 11,000 electoral authorities throughout the province will guarantee the quality of the process.

7:15 a.m.

At electoral college Number 1 of the Playa Popular Council, the place where Commander in Chief Fidel Castro Ruz voted in 1974, the first secretary of the Party in Matanzas, Susely Morfa González, candidate for Deputy for the main municipality, exercised her right to vote.

7:30 AM

The governor of Matanzas, Mario Sabines Lorenzo, arrived very early with his family, at the polling station located in the Juan Ripoll elementary school of the Versalles Popular Council to exercise his civic rights.

In statements to the press, he said he was happy with the number of residents who were already at the school gate before seven in the morning to vote for the Revolution.

In Cárdenas, the Julio Aristegui Villamil hospital is one of the forty-six special schools in the municipality, including hotel facilities.

8:52 AM

The candidate for Deputy, Elían González, also exercised the right to vote at his electoral college early on.

9:00 AM

In the municipality of Jaguey Grande, today they also vote for Cuba, for the Revolution, for socialism. Today you vote with your heart.

9:30 a.m.

In Colón, the 129 polling stations function as planned for the development of the elections. A special one was set up at the «Doctor Mario Muñoz Monroy» hospital. The 48,230 voters registered on the lists will be able to vote.

10:00 a.m.

Educators, workers, engineers, young people, all from Matanzas, attended electoral college number 3 of constituency 9 in Versalles to exercise their right to vote.

Translated by Casterman Medina de Leon

La entrada Minute to minute: Elections in Matanzas se publicó primero en TV Yumurí.

Those who are elected will be in charge of electing the President and Vice President of the Republic and continue with the legislative development of the Constitution. This is an act of popular sovereignty and citizen participation that reflects the commitment of Cubans to the Revolution.

The process of election will development in 12 427 circumscription. Have been create 23 648 schools (250 of the are special) and will intervene more than 200 000 authorities (62,000 constituencies and more than 118,000 tables).

The schools have a working schedule from 7:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m. However, schools in seven provinces have been authorized to open their doors before 7:00 a.m. to facilitate the vote of voters who live in remote areas or areas that are difficult to access.

Candidates must obtain more than 50% of the valid votes cast to be elected as deputies to the National Assembly of People’s Power. The candidates are representatives of the people, elected by and for the people.

We invite you to exercise your right to vote this Sunday and be a part of this historic moment. Your vote is your voice, your future. Your vote is Cuba.

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Translated by Casterman Medina de Leon 

La entrada Elections in Cuba se publicó primero en TV Yumurí.

Checking the availability of material and human resources, as well as computer systems and data transmission, was the main objective to examine during the tours presided over by partisan, government and electoral authorities, both from the province and the territory.

The municipal electoral authorities assured that all the conditions are created for the people of Jovellan to exercise their right to vote next Sunday.

They also informed that the necessary documentation and other inputs for the full development of the voting are guaranteed.

Better is possible and the Jovellanenses who this Sunday have starred in the dynamic test with the objective of guaranteeing the development of the Elections for Deputies to the National Assembly of People’s Power know it well. (ALH)

Translated by Casterman Medina de Leon

La entrada Jovellanos ready for the development of the elections se publicó primero en TV Yumurí.