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Electoral Registers Check Ends in Cuba

Havana, Mar 17 (Prensa Latina) The deadline for voters to verify any mistake in primary electoral registers will conclude Thursday in Cuba, the National Electoral Commission reported.

These rolls, placed as of February 15 in public places throughout the country, will be removed today, and finally published on April 6.

Over 15,000 district commisions have worked on the registers together with neighbors, showing the transparency of the electoral system in the largest of the Antilles.

People over 16 years old with permanent residence have the right to vote, except those mentally ill or serving prison sentences, even when on parole.

Meetings to nominate candidates as delegates for the Municipal Assemblies (local governments) are being held in each constituency up to March 24.

Candidates´ biographies will be published as of March 27 in public for the voters to review candidate profiles.

The first round of these polls will be on April 17. A second round will be held a week later in those constituencies where no candidate wins more than 50 percent of the vote.

Cuba holds elections every two and a half years to form the municipal assemblies and every five-years to elect delegates to Provincial Assemblies and deputies to the National Assembly (parliament).

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