By Mikhail Bonito Santiago de Chile 26/04/2011
In an effort to legitimize the results of the VI Congress of the CCP, the Castro regime will break their own laws.
Closing of the Sixth Congress of the Communist Party's official crowning of Raúl Castro in charge of "the highest leading force of society and the state," has been almost the same as when it was announced years ago that the Cubans were entitled to use cell phones. The world wants change so that Cuba, which every nuance is considered a huge breakthrough. It sometimes happens that a country statue, even blinks, simulating movement. Much has been made of the gerontocracy, mediocrity of the changes, asylum in power for another ten years, but little has been said of the omission of the legal channels by the government and the PCC in its own decision-making .
The Congress of the CPC, held more than a decade of delay, discussed the Guidelines for the Economic and Social Policy of the Party and the Revolution. These guidelines were "discussed" by nearly nine million citizens, according to Raul Castro issued more than three million views. Then Castro himself said that "... in all participants included not been defined precisely, tens of thousands of activists ... who attended both meetings of its committees or the basic core as those held in workplace or further study in the communities where they reside. It is also the case of non military and participate in working groups and later in the respective neighborhoods. " Nine million are reduced then to an unknown quantity, but rather less than the initial figure.
In an effort to legitimize the Guidelines, Castro contends that the results of the debate are "... a kind of referendum on the depth, scope and pace of change that we make ...."
But it happens that a kind of referendum has no meaning, either legally or politically, for two basic reasons. To give legal validity to the document in terms of democratic practice, it is essential to submit the final document, once the Congress of the CCP, a real referendum, according to the Cuban electoral law, where citizens are able to vote to decide whether they accept those guidelines. This is necessary because the Guidelines involve legislative changes ranging from the sphere to the social security tax, to first order changes in the field of labor law relations. It is the People's National Assembly called for convening this process.
From the political point of view, assuming as "a kind of referendum" meetings of opinion is only a demagogic claim that invalidates the legitimacy of the changes. Many opponents and dissidents were attacked verbally with phrases like "this discussion is to improve the revolution" and others of the same tenor as tried to participate in the assemblies of their neighborhoods, and opinions who called for systemic changes such as access to power, respect for DD HH, the elimination of entry and exit permits, free market economy, free elections and the change in the direction of the country were removed from the minutes of meetings where they occurred. Discuss in workplaces, which performs a process of elimination of positions and layoff of personnel, means that very few people point out hot spots, otherwise swell the list of unemployed.
The "democratic centralism" is the principle of party structure has to traspolado society as a form of sui generis exercise of Cuban democracy. Translates into discussions of social base, which will report to higher spheres until they are validated and become binding. This is nothing more than an exercise in double standards based on the prevailing social fear and the restrictions of a discussion led by the CCP at every level in society, ignoring the mechanisms established under the Constitution and laws of the republic .
Something we have seen previously in the government response to the Varela Project, when it was declared constitutional the irrevocable nature of socialism, and sought to legitimize the act similar to a popular discussion, without call use of the referendum.
When debate on a "sort of referendum", we live in this "sort of democracy."
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