Assembly Rejects Drive for Political Reforms
Communist Cuba’s National Assembly has rejected as unconstitutional the Varela Project, an opposition petition seeking political and economic reforms through a referendum, an aide to the assembly’s president said.
A spokesman for the Varela Project said no formal response had been received and the petition drive continued. In May, 11,000 signatures were delivered to the assembly asking for a referendum on freedom of expression, political pluralism, the right to own businesses and the freeing of political prisoners.
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