Cuba elects 614 members of Parliament

The suspense was not overwhelming, though... "A single candidate appeared on the ballot for each district. All candidates on the ballot were Communist party members.

No campaigning was allowed."

Cuban elections lack credibility: critic
Updated Mon. Jan. 21 2008 10:04 AM ET
CTV.ca News Staff

A critic of Cuba's government says voters had little choice in parliamentary elections held over the weekend and the process lacks credibility and integrity.

Speaking to CTV's Canada AM just one day after Cubans elected a slate of new parliamentary candidates, including Fidel Castro, Miriam Leiva said neither she nor her husband, a political prisoner recently freed for health reasons, cast a ballot in Saturday's election.

"Since about 20 years almost I've been having another way of thinking and I think these elections don't show exactly what people feel or are not fair -- we are told who to vote for and we know the results how they are going to be," Leiva said from Havana.

Saturday's vote was the first step in determining Castro's role in the future of the country. The 81-year-old has not been seen in public for almost 18 months, but his name still appeared on the ballot..."
http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20080120/cuba_vote_080121/20080121?hub=TopStories

I suppose there will be several hilarious threads supporting Cuban "democracy" from the usual DU sources.

voting in a particular district has the option of none of the above?

is superior. It's Cuba, you know.


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