TOWARDS AN ASSESSMENT OF THE IMPROVEMENT OF THE CONSTITUTIONAL MECHANISMS OF DIRECT POPULAR PARTICIPATION IN CUBA

The Cuban Socialist Constitution of 1976, it’s the result of a revolutionary participative process genuinely popular, and therefore provides, among its basic principles, the popular sovereignty of popular direct exercise. The Cuban Constitution, have mechanisms for popular direct participation; name...

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Main Author: Orestes Rodríguez Musa
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Universidad Autónoma Indígena de México 2010-09-01
Series:Ra Ximhai
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Online Access:http://www.uaim.edu.mx/webraximhai/Ej-18articulosPDF/08-Una_valoracion.pdf
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Summary:The Cuban Socialist Constitution of 1976, it’s the result of a revolutionary participative process genuinely popular, and therefore provides, among its basic principles, the popular sovereignty of popular direct exercise. The Cuban Constitution, have mechanisms for popular direct participation; namely: the election process, the accountability and revocation of our representatives in the popular power; as well as the initiative, the referendum and popular consultation. However they require to facilitate a systematic exercise of sovereignty by the owner, the adjustments if the legal-technical instrumentation. Our ratings not pursue a change in the Cuban political regime, but a technical-legal constitutional rule that hold, to ensure a sistematical popular participation, necessary to carry out the participative spirit of the constitutional text and for the constant renewal of the legitimacy of our political design.
ISSN:1665-0441