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Cuban Electoral Authorities Begin Regional Meetings

Written by Ana Julia Suarez Cruz

Havana, Feb 16 (Prensa Latina) The National Electoral Commission (CNE) will start regional meetings on Wednesday with its territorial peers in order to evaluate preparations for local partial elections on April 25. According to Juventud Rebelde daily, the CNE will meet with electoral authorities from the western part of the country in Havana on Wednesday, in order to check how voters registration is going on.

On April 25 Cubans will vote to elect delegates to local legislative assemblies in the country's 169 municipalities.

Meetings will continue in the central city of Sancti Spiritus on Thursday and will conclude in a locality of the eastern province of Granma on Friday.

Programs for the nomination of electoral candidates at neighbourhood meetings will also be analyzed. Those meetings begin on February 24 and will last for a month in the country's 169 municipalities.

The 15,093 candidates for the April 25 partial elections will be elected at neighbourhood meetings, and in case none of the candidates of a constituency gets more than half of the valid votes, then a run-off will be held on May 2.

According to CEN, over 320,000 Cubans, most of them 16 years old have applied to have the right to vote, and will go to the polls for the first.

Taken from the web site(www.plenglish.com)