Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel described the elections that are taking place in the country on Sunday as a party and a day of extreme joy.
Santa Clara, Cuba.- “We are going for another new revolutionary victory,” the head of State noted after casting his vote at polling station 1 in this central Cuban city.
Diaz-Canel is one of eight candidates for the Cuban National People’s Power Assembly (Parliament) from Santa Clara, the capital of Villa Clara province.
The president noted that in the next five years, the 10th Legislature is going to focus, fundamentally, on how to overcome the economic and social situation that Cuba is going through.
“This strategy will have to be constantly fed back as the nation develops,” said Díaz-Canel, who is also the first secretary of the Communist Party of Cuba (PCC).
He pointed out that the second priority will be to comply with the legislative exercise and the way to give a solution and continuity to everything that people have been raising in the candidates’ tours throughout the national territory.
“It must be said that many of the things that people have raised have already been solved, others have been explained to them because they could not be solved, based on the fact that whenever we can take a bit out of a problem it is a way of prevent them from growing,” he stressed.
CUBAN PRESIDENT CALLS TO GIVE MORE PROMINENCE TO YOUNG PEOPLE
After exercising his vote on Sunday, Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel called to give young people all the opportunities and create spaces where they can discuss and propose their productive and social initiatives.
At a meeting with national and international journalists, at the exit of voting station 1 in the central city of Santa Clara, the head of State pointed out that it is very important for the nation that young people continue to train and create spaces in their companies in the fields of technology and innovation.
“We must give them the chance to control and provide feedback on the processes that we can do, while continuing to train, to do postgraduate, master’s, and doctoral degrees,” Díaz-Canel, who is also first secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba (PCC), added.
“The managers of companies and institutions of all kinds, the first thing they have to take into account is who these recent graduates are, what opportunity they are giving them, and whenever I arrive at a workplace, I ask the managers if they are letting young people propose their initiatives and if they give them the chance to develop,” Díaz-Canel pointed out.
“We are planning for the country’s development system to be driven by a government management system based on science and innovation, which is why transmission pulleys are needed and in each place, these pulleys are the scientific potential,” he stressed.
He pointed out that it is necessary to transform the processes in public administration, and the structure must have master’s degrees and doctors to revitalize these innovations.
“I am one of those convinced that innovation is the premise of an important component for the full development of the country,” he stated.
In the end, he said that the parliamentary candidacies for the National Assembly throughout the country are a video of our society because there are young and more experienced people, represented in all sectors, and that gives them strength so that the discussion agenda of the National Assembly is the discussion agenda of the population. (PL)
