CHAPTER XIV. ELECTORAL SYSTEM
ARTICLE 131
All citizens with the legal capacity for doing so are entitled to intervene in the direction of the State, either directly or through their representatives elected to membership in the organs of the People’s Power; and for that purpose, to participate, in the manner provided in the law, in periodic elections and popular referendums, to be held with a free, equal, and secret ballot. Each voter is entitled to only one vote.
ARTICLE 132
All Cubans 16 years of age and over, men and women alike, have the right to vote, except those who:
- are mentally disabled and have been declared so by a court, or
- have committed a crime and, because of this, have lost the right to vote.
ARTICLE 133
All Cuban citizens, men and women alike, who have full political rights can be elected.
If the election is for deputies to the National Assembly of People’s Power, they must be 18 years old or over.
ARTICLE 134
Members of the Revolutionary Armed Forces and other military institutions of the nation have the right to elect and be elected just like any other citizen.
ARTICLE 135
The law determines the number of delegates comprising each of the Provincial and Municipal Assemblies, in proportion to the number of inhabitants in the respective demarcations into which the national territory is divided for electoral purposes.
The delegates to the Provincial and Municipal Assemblies are elected by free, direct, and secret ballot on the part of the electors. The law also regulates the procedure for their election.
ARTICLE 136
To be considered elected as a deputy or delegate, it is necessary to have obtained more than half of the number of valid votes cast in the electoral demarcation.
If this requirement is not met, or in other instances of vacant seats, the law regulates the manner in which the procedure is to take place.
