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LatinNews Regional Monitor: Caribbean & Central America - 26 January 2018

CUBA: Deputies to choose Castro’s successor nominated

The process to select a successor to President Raúl Castro moved a step closer on 21 January when Cuba’s 168 municipal assemblies of popular power nominated the candidates to fill the 612-seat national assembly. The responsibility will fall upon national assembly deputies in a session beginning on 19 April to select the 31-member council of state and Cuba’s first president outside of the Castro family since the establishment of the organs of popular power in 1976.

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