• Submitted by: manso
• Politics and Government
• 03 / 11 / 2011

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2011.03.11 - 14:02:57 / radiorebelde.HAVANA, CUBA.- The one thousand delegates that will participate in the upcoming Sixth Congress of the Cuban Communist Party (PCC), scheduled for April, have already been elected, Granma newspaper reported on Friday.

The election process —which included PCC members working abroad in cooperation programs— ended with meetings of the general secretaries of local PCC organizations in the municipalities, districts and similar bodies of the Revolutionary Armed Forces and the Interior Ministry.

According to Granma newspaper, in a parallel process, 1,280 pre-candidates for posts as members of the PCC’s Central Committee were also elected.

The note points out that this is the smallest number of delegates to a PCC Congress ever in accordance with the rationality and functionality demanded by the current times.

The article adds that the main topic to be discussed during the Congress will be the Draft Guidelines for the Economic and Social Policy of the Party and the Revolution.

Granma notes that working groups of 5,000 specialists in all municipalities and provinces are currently concluding the analysis of every question, concern, or proposal —made by the people in meetings held across the nation— to add, change or remove something from the Draft Guidelines to make the necessary changes before the document is presented during the Congress.

The Sixth PCC Congress will take place coinciding with the 50th anniversary of the Cuban victory against the mercenary invasion in Bay of Pigs and also the 50th anniversary of the declaration of the Socialist nature of the Cuban Revolution. (ACN)