El sistema electoral y la reforma política integral en Cuba: ¿Cómo contribuir a un nuevo consenso nacional?

Abstract

This article offers a contribution to the analysis of possible electoral reforms in Cuba today, considering the necessary systemic approach to updating the integral model of socialist development, which going beyond the economic sphere, strengthens the broadest popular participation and national political consensus by further democratization of the political system. This objective is materialized through a critical assessment of the reform process that has taken place in the Cuban electoral system and the prospects for change. It is specified that this process is not isolated, but is part of the approach (mentioned above) of the model and must permanently accompany the economic, cultural, social, political and ideological transformations in a way to guarantee the integrality of the processes of revolutionary transformation of Cuban society. The article makes a proposal for possible new electoral reforms in the country, linking it, from the same critical point of view, to the precepts of the Constitution approved by a referendum in February 2019 -which did not offer any innovations in terms of direct elections- and with the key premise of political development defined by this author: the necessary increasingly broad, active, direct, systematic, creative, real, effective, deliberative and binding popular participation of the population in making the most important decisions of the country.