A group of Cuban dissidents presented today in Madrid his project “# Otro18″ with aspiring to a political transition in Cuba by transforming the current law, with the active participation of society.
“We seek to transform the law to reach a state of law,” said Manuel Cuesta Morua (Arco Progresista), which together with Yusmila Reyna (UNPACU), Rolando (Fantu) and Boris González (journalist), presented the new political project, which arises primarily to the reform of the electoral law in order to participate in political life.
And from the National Assembly, proposing the “essential changes” that in Cuba “the rule of law is established” and, among other things, to elect the president, Ferrer said.
They consider it a process for establishing a first “minimum agenda”, which demand a reform of the electoral system, freedom to nominate candidates and proselytize, independence voter registration, extension of the rights of voters and elected, and the legalization of civil-political associations.
In a second step, a “top agenda” would include reforms regarding fundamental rights and public freedoms, structural reform of the political system, administrative decentralization and a new electoral calendar, include the election of President of Cuba.
According Morua, on the island there is a situation “that can ensure the viability of a proposal of this nature,” and gave as examples the withdrawal announced by Raul Castro, the future new law election and the opening of dialogue with the United States, which “no longer enemies.”
So, have opened a process of discussion with the public, so that the future state “resembles the country and not to power,” said political Arco Progresista.
Asked if there are sectors within the Castro regime would be willing to support a political transition, Morua said yes, but “require pressure citizenship.”
“We are not able to bring thousands of people to a public square, but there are other options social pressure,” said Reyna.
The “#Otro 18″ initiative refers to the year 2018, in which Raul Castro leave power, as announced by the Cuban president himself, in addition to the year in which it is provided a new electoral law is passed.
This project involves more than 45 political and social organizations, which comprise much of the opposition.
When asked about the differences between different groups who oppose the Castro government, Boris Gonzalez acknowledged that “we are not the only alternative,” but that circumstance is enriching and “non-excludable “.
“We all want free elections, but we see different ways of reaching the same goal,” he said Reyna.
On the other hand, he asked Morúa Europe and Spain who “join in this process of gradual transition from law to law”.
He said that the international community has seen so far the opposition as “part of a resistance group” claiming rights under an oppressive state, but insisted that “this is a demand policy, which responds to a growing demand “of citizenship. “It is a political process, not a revolution,” he said.
All participants agreed that the reform process undertaken in Cuba must not only be economic, but also political, so that ruled out the so-called “Chinese option” of a state two systems, first because the Cuban government has not allowed the economic opening, and in the Caribbean country because there is a “Cuban relaxed” compared to the “vertical” structure of Chinese society. EFE
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