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Cuban Foreign Minister talks about the Family Code with US legal and civic organizations

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The Minister of Foreign Affairs of Cuba, Bruno Rodríguez Parrilla, who traveled to New York to participate in the 77th session of the United Nations General Assembly, exchanged this Wednesday with representatives of legal and civic organizations from the United States on the referendum. popular of the Family Code. On his Twitter account, the Cuban foreign minister described the debate as enriching, in which he offered details on the results of the referendum, its inclusive nature and the benefits of the new law for Cuban society.

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Official Gazette Publishes Family Code

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Official Gazette Publishes Family Code. New Family Code protects the rights of all Cubans.The Official Gazette of the Republic of Cuba has just published the Family Code, already signed by the President of the National Assembly Esteban Lazo Hernández and endorsed by President Miguel Díaz Canel Bermúdez, as stated on the Twitter account of the highest body Cuban legislature.

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Cuba votes in referendum its new Family Code

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This September 25, Cuba submits the new Family Code to a popular referendum, a step that will decide on the entry into force of this important legislation. From seven in the morning, the more than 24,000 polling stations in the country will open their doors in a civic and democratic process that constitutes an unprecedented event: never before has a law been submitted to the will of the people, who will have the last word (Yes or No), which as simple as it may seem, has great significance for the present and future of the nation.

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Cuban President votes in a referendum on the Family Code

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The President of the Republic of Cuba, Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez, and his wife Lis Cuesta arrived at 7:48 in the morning at school 3 of constituency 57, in the municipality of Playa, where they exercised their right to vote in the popular referendum. of the Family Code. At the end of the process, he told the press that it is going to be an intense day, which we arrived at as a result of a process that had to do with the construction of a fair, necessary, up-to-date, modern regulation that gives rights and guarantees to all people and diversities of families and creeds.

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Cuba carried out a dynamic test prior to the popular referendum on the new Family Code

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The dynamic test prior to the popular referendum on the new Family Code, to be held on September 25, ended today throughout Cuba. During the exercise, the specialists checked the availability of material and human resources, as well as computer systems and data transmission. The president of the National Electoral Council, Alina Balseiro, explained that the electoral steps taken are very important, both the dynamic test and the vote abroad, planned as established in the program.

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Referendum held on the Family Code for Cubans abroad

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This Sunday, September 18, the referendum began on the new Family Code for Cubans who are abroad in state missions, who will be able to exercise their right in more than a thousand authorized schools in different cities of the world. The Minister of Foreign Affairs of Cuba, Bruno Rodríguez Parrilla, voted in the referendum for the new Family Code, according to what the diplomat reported. The foreign minister exercised his right at the electoral college located at the headquarters of the Cuban mission to the United Nations, in New York.

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Havana prepared for the dynamic test of the Popular Referendum of the new Family Code

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Havana is ready for the dynamic test that this Sunday will put into practice the electoral system with a view to the popular referendum of the new Family Code, Maydelis Dupuy Zapata, president of the Provincial Electoral Council, assured today. Exclusively to the Cuban News Agency, the official explained that the territory’s 3,891 polling stations will open this Sunday and the conditions for this process will be verified, although the voting rehearsal and data processing will be carried out in 4,000 chosen polling stations. .

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The code that Cuban families deserve

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The Family Code will be made available to the people of Cuba for its ratification in a referendum next Sunday, September 25, as was reported in the recently concluded National Assembly of People’s Power in the work session on July 22 last. This is the text that results after the popular consultation stage is completed and responds to the mandate established in the Eleventh Transitory Provision of the Constitution of the Republic of Cuba proclaimed on April 10, 2019, which orders the highest legislative body to order the start of the process that concluded on April 30 and the final step that is yet to come.

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Family avoids mental fatigue associated with Covid-19 in Cuba

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Professor Olga Esther Infante, from the University of Medical Sciences of Havana, explained that the term ‘pandemic exhaustion’ is perceived by the Cuban family, a concept coined by the World Health Organization in reference to a state of fatigue, lack of motivation and apathy. Infante specified in a televised conference that this lack of motivation leads to a relaxation of personal self-care and increases the risk of contagion, as well as affectations among group members such as irritability and manifestations of anxiety that can generate conflicts.

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Families, in times of pandemic and always

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Throughout the current health emergency, Cuban families have promoted good health practices and continue to play a leading role in the education of younger generations. Photo: Ariel Cecilio Lemus Alvarez. Like any institution, the family is a social grouping that requires special attention from government in terms of its needs, including balancing work and home responsibilities and reducing domestic violence, among others.