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CUBA, August 1st, 2010.- The National Assembly of People's Power (ANPP) today approved, at its fifth ordinary session, a revised law that makes adjustments to the current political-administrative division of Cuba.
In a plenary session the Cuban deputies discussed the proposed changes to the Law 1304 of July 1976, when Cuba went from having six provinces to 14.
The amendment creates two new provinces, to be known as Artemisa and Mayabeque, from the current areas of Havana province
Secretary of the State Council Homero Acosta Alvarez read the new law that also includes the disappearance of the famous Varadero resort as a municipality to be part of the Cardenas municipality and to be supervised directly by provide the Council of Ministers
At the start of the discussion, Acosta recalled that in January 2007, that instance of Government decided to establish a commission to study everything about the desirability of further adjustments in the political-administrative division of Cuba.
Chairman of the Committee on Constitutional and Legal Affairs of the ANPP, Jose Luis Toledo Santander reported that in the new provinces and municipalities they will establish a more rational organization of its governing structures.
The Commission also proposed that the law does not come into force until government bodies in Mayabeque and Artemisa are not created.
Though many of the deputies reported the support of their population to the new changes, in the cases where neighbors disagreed with the measure the government carried out consultations and the proposal was put to the vote.
As the First secretary of the Communist Party of Cuba in Havana Lazara Mercedes Lopez Acea explained in the case of those belonging to some constituencies of the Havana del Este, Cotorro and Guanabacoa municipalities chosen to pass to the new Mayabeque province, at the request of its inhabitants, it was decided to continue belonging to the capital.
After further adjustments approved unanimously by the ANPP, Ricardo Alarcón, proposed the creation of a commission charged with reviewing style and make the draft on the amendments before they are put into force. (Cubaminrex - ACN)