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• 10 / 21 / 2007

A total of 37, 749 voting stations opened at 7:00 am on Sunday, with the notes of the National Anthem and flanked by the Cuban Flag and the Coat of Arms. As it is usual in Cuban elections, ballot boxes are under the custody of school children dressed in their complete school uniforms.

Cuban citizens will execute their electoral right through direct and secret vote, in what is considered the most genuine expression of national self-determination and sovereignty.

Over 37,250 Cuban citizens were nominated to the election, 28,9 percent are women and 21,3 are young people. Last September some 50,760 nomination assemblies were held at neighborhood level, which were attended by over 7 million Cubans, 84 percent of all Cubans over 16 years of age.

A total of 15,236 delegates will be elected during this first round and during a second vote next October 27. They will represent the population of their own communities at the local government offices for a two and a half year period.

Some 8, 3 million Cuban citizens are expected to vote in this election in what is considered an expression of the Cuban people's determination to choose their own destiny.

Source: ACN