For José Geovani Hernández, the images he had seen in biographies were transformed into people of flesh and blood when the candidates for the 2023 parliamentary elections visited his work center, Francisco (Paco) Cabrera Metal Structures Company (METUNAS).

Las Tunas, Cuba.- "We already have, let's say, a clearer idea of who they are," said the 31-year-old tinker after personally meeting the candidates for the seats in the National Assembly of the People's Power, for the head of this eastern province. "It is more palpable, the contact with the worker, with those of us who, so to speak, is in the furrow", he said before returning to his work in one of the main industries in the Balcony of the Cuban East.

In the largest city of Las Tunas, the candidates held similar meetings in other relevant economic centers of the region such as the basic business unit Muebles Ludema, and the textile manufacturing companies Melissa and Aceros Inoxidables (Acinox Las Tunas); also in six neighborhoods of the city and the universities of Las Tunas and Medical Sciences.

Representatives of the Provincial Candidacy Commission in the land of Vicente Garcia clarified that the tour was the first of several that they will carry out in their respective election areas until March 24, just two days before the elections. They added that similar dialogues are taking place in all municipalities. In Puerto Padre, for example, the exchanges took place at the Raymundo Castro pediatric hospital, the Radio Libertad radio station, and the Vidal Navas Fernández tobacco factory.

An equal number of candidates who emerged from a process of nomination and subsequent selection by social, student, and union organizations aspire to the 22 seats of Las Tunas in the Cuban Legislative. These candidates were elected as such by the municipal assemblies of the People's Power on February 5, but it will be the people, with their vote on March 26, who will decide whether they will be part of the Parliament.