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This isn't legislation. The proposal is for a referendum. Evidently a referendum can be proposed by anybody. Also, calling people who want to hold a referendum a "cretin" is rude. Why don't you tone it down? What people are proposing is similar to what the left wing proposed in Honduras, and your buddies were foaming at the mouth when the military pulled a coup to stop it.
Paya's "legal petition" was deemed illegal by the government (see the recent post where Alarcon mentions requests for the national assembly to debate constitutional changes are considered illegal, because Paya is mis-interpreting Cuba's communist drafted Constitution). Paya and followers have been arrested numerous times for making such proposals.
Given the controversy, I took the time to read the Cuban Constitution. My conclusion is that it doesn't allow for any form of referendum proposal, nor does it really allow for changes to the basic legal and political structure. The way it's written, it declares Cuba is a communist country, and also has clauses which allow the authorities to write laws to jail anybody who wants to change Cuba from communist to anything else. So the communists did what they have usually done, they gained power, then created a legal and law enforcement cage to keep power. They have the laws, and the repressive machine to make sure the Cuban people are bound to be communists "forever".
So the only avenue left for the Cuban people, whether they are outside or inside the country, is to protest and to demonstrate, and make proposals which fall outside of the legal boundaries set by the state. I know this is extremely unpleasant for you, just like the referendum proposal was to the elites in Honduras, but it's a reality. Calling them cretins won't make them go away. The sense all over the world is that Cuba has been given too much slack to abuse human rights without due consideration of the impact this has on the population. Countries and companies are too willing to pervert any sense of ethics or morality to make a little money from these abusive regimes, and hopefully there will be a change in the future. And this applies to Honduras, Cuba, Iran, Israel, Sudan, Iraq, and all the other places where human rights abuses and irrational policies are prevalent.
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