The governor of the province of Las Tunas, Jaime Ernesto Chiang Vega, affirmed that the voters attend to an essential moment of democracy in Cuba because the representatives of the municipal assemblies of the People’s Power are elected.

Las Tunas, Cuba.- Minutes after exercising his right to vote in Polling Station 1 of the Circumscription 97, at the Popular Council 2, in the La Victoria neighborhood, the governor stressed the important role that the Constitution of the Republic grants to municipalities and their autonomy, in which the delegates play a significant role as the representatives of the people in the neighborhoods, to process concerns and help to solve problems based on their demands before the government bodies.

Hence, the will of the people to choose their delegates, accordingly on their intelligence, prestige, and ability to face the tasks, he said.

Regarding the attendance of the voters at the polls, he highlighted how the people of his constituency go with discipline to the two set polling stations. He added that the nominees are competent people, with great possibilities of carrying out the work of the Municipal Assembly of the People's Power in communities, something that is common throughout the province.

These citizens receive no salary for their performance as delegates -he expressed-, they are workers who carry out a specific task and additionally exercise the right to represent their people before the government bodies and contribute to the development of the neighborhoods where they live.

More than 1,485 candidates were nominated in meetings in each constituency in Las Tunas; 668 of them will be elected delegates to the municipal assemblies of the People’s Power, as a sign of the transparency of democracy in Cuba.