With the presence of Ana María Mari Machado and Homero Acosta Álvarez, vice-president and secretary of the National Assembly of People’s Power, respectively, deputies from all over the country today analysed the draft Citizenship Law via videoconference.

During the meeting, the interventions of the parliamentarians enriched the proposed regulatory provision, which will be submitted for consideration by the supreme organ of state power in its next ordinary session of the tenth legislature, the Parliament reported on its website.

The bill aims to develop the current constitutional postulates in this area, which guarantee the political will to strengthen in the legislative order the relationship between the Cuban state and its citizens and incorporate the experiences that the practical application of current legislation suggests, in addition to evaluating comparative law issues that contribute to its updating.

During a detailed review of all its articles, conducted from the National Capitol by José Luis Toledo Santander, president of the Constitutional and Legal Affairs Committee of the National Assembly, doubts, proposals and comments were raised as part of the broad legislative process that is a hallmark of Cuba’s socialist democracy.

The text of the draft Citizenship Law, and the email address provided, is published on the Parliament’s website with the aim of promoting citizen participation.

(With information from ACN)