Almost 67 % of voters said “yes” to the new family code during the referendum held on September 25. But significant abstention and votes against translate dissatisfaction with communist power.
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ignores for one day, at least, the misfortunes of Cuba, the LGBTI community of the communist island celebrated, euphoric, the “historic” result of the referendum on the family code organized on Sunday September 25. At 66.9 %, according to the provisional results unveiled on Monday by the National Electoral Council, Cuban voters approved the legalization of “egalitarian marriage” between people of the same sex. “The yes prevailed. Justice was done,” said President Miguel Diaz-Canel. Approaching the family code is a way of solving a debt with several generations of Cubans. From today, We will be a better nation. “
Pending final results, expected on Wednesday, the government considered the sense of “valid and irreversible” vote. And, at the end of the day, Mr. Diaz-Canel and the president of the National Assembly of Popular Power, Esteban Lazo Hernandez, ratified the new family code.
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The 104-page document, which also allows adoption for homosexual couples and supervises the gestation “united” by people “united by family or emotional”, flattens the 1975 family code until- there in force. He prohibits the marriages of minors -so far authorized from 14 years old for girls and 16 years for boys -, redefines the responsibilities of parents, prohibits corporal punishment within families, ensures the rights of grandparents Keeping contact with their grandchildren after a separation, poses on paper the duty to protect the state to the elderly and disabled, and takes into account children in the care processes or ‘adoption. It was to be published in an emergency in a special edition of the official bulletin on Tuesday, for immediate entry into force.
In this increasingly authoritarian country, this ambitious text, which fixes new rights while those which already exist are regularly flouted, did not fail to cause controversy. And the results confirm the dissatisfaction of Cubans towards the regime, which already appears in their exodus of unprecedented scale and in the rise of social protest, linked to shortages and attacks on public freedoms. More than a thousand people were placed in detention following historical demonstrations “against the dictatorship” of July 11, 2021.
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