For Armando Aguilera Parra, one of the young volunteer workers in the referendum on the Family Code Project, this document is a genuine reflection of today's Cuban society and an exponent of the constitutional rights granted to citizens since the very beginning of the revolutionary process, reported Eileen Esther Molina Fernández, a journalist with the Cuban News Agency (ACN).
Parra, 29 years old and resident of the Alcides Pino neighborhood of the capital city, shares his duties as an art instructor at the José Martí Pre-Vocational Institute with the support to the organization of the consultation meetings in his community and the orientation to the voters on their transcendence for the social life and education in Cuba.
The young man praised to the ACN the values of the code in the recognition of the different types of families and the duties in the care of the elderly and people with disabilities, among other vulnerable sectors, in addition to including new provisions to establish responsibilities for children and women.
He also referred to the importance of the actions of the youth in the transparency of this process, where all the opinions of the people will be respected, whether favorable or not, as well as the criteria for omission or addition of terms, paragraphs or chapters.
Patricia Hernández, a fourth year law student, said that although some issues such as parental responsibility and adoption have sparked controversy in some sectors, the code takes into account the different realities of coexistence and interpersonal relationships.
Norge Gonzalez, a third year sociocultural studies student, also added the relevance of the participation of each citizen in the meetings, as an opportunity to present their criteria and to be taken into account in the modifications prior to the referendum, scheduled for next September.
The Family Code Project, in its 24th version, was approved by Cuban deputies in the Eighth Ordinary Period of Sessions of the National Assembly of People's Power, in its ninth legislature, held in December 2020 at the Palace of Conventions in Havana, after the changes proposed by the parliamentarians and will be under discussion in the 16 Cuban provinces until April 30.
Holguín, the second province with the largest number of voters on the island, after Havana, foresees the holding of more than seven thousand assemblies in urban and rural areas, as well as actions in several educational centers to socialize the document among young people who have reached the age of 16, the age established to have the right to vote.