More than 8 Million Cubans
Voted in Local Elections
HAVANA - Some 8,094,419 Cubans casted their
votes on Sunday to choose the delegates to
the Legislative Assemblies of the country's
169 municipalities, according to the latest
report by the National Electoral Commission
(NEC).
The NEC collected that information at 17:00
local time, two hours before the closing of
the almost 30,000 polling stations set up
nationwide.
The figure represents a 93.4 percent
turnout, NEC's President Ana Maria Mari told
the media.
She highlighted the transparency of the
universal, secret polling and the massive
participation of the people.
Some 30,000 polling stations nationwide
opened Sunday for almost 8.5 million Cubans
to elect 15,093 delegates among 34,077
candidates to make up the Municipal
Assemblies of 169 municipalities.
The second round of elections is set for May
2 in those electoral districts in which none
of the candidates obtains more than the 50
percent of the valid votes.
Mari stressed that the people felt motivated
with this partial elections, particularly
reaffirming their support to the political
revolutionary process.
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