#Live From Cuba | Miguel Diaz-Canel, the new president of #Cuba: We will be faithful to the legacy of Fidel.
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11:58 a.m. Cuban Time: Juan Esteban Lazo Hernández was re-elected as president of the ANPP, while the deputy Ana María Mari Machado was re-elected vice president, both with 604 votes, that is, 100 percent of the votes. Miriam Brito Sarroca was re-elected secretary of the ANPP with 603 votes.
By obtaining more than 50 percent of the votes, elected officials take office immediately, according to Article 142 of the Electoral Law.
The 604 deputies of the 605 elected last March took office in the 168 municipalities of the country because one was absent.
The National Assembly of People's Power (ANPP) of Cuba began a two-day session Wednesday to elect the members of the Council of State and its president.
On March 11, over seven million Cubans elected 605 parliamentarians, who will have the task of selecting the Council of State, which will be composed of a president, a first vice president, five vice presidents, a secretary and 23 members, the highest representative of this body, is in turn head of state and government in accordance with the Cuban Constitution.
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The 31 deputies that will make up the Council of State would be constituted by social organizations of workers, students, women, and peasants.
The results will be announced Wednesday, April 18, as the session of parliamentarians continues throughout the day. Cuban media says the country's new president will be published Thursday. The day also marks the 57th anniversary of the victory of Cuba over the invasion of a counterrevolutionary, U.S. brigade in Playa Girón.
This event changed the history of Cuba. Fifty-seven years later, Cubans celebrate their victory over an invading force of 1,500 men, "equipped, trained and financed by the United States government."