Document: Law of Amendment to the Electoral Law
Type of document: Law
Date of issue: 04/07/1986
Number of Legal Instrument: Law No 55
Broadcaster: National Assembly of People's Power
Date of entry to the repository: 17/05/2016
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FLAVIO BRAVO PARDO , President of the National Assembly of the People's Power of the Republic of Cuba,
I DO KNOW: That in session of the National Assembly of People's Power, held on July 4, 1986, corresponding to the Tenth Regular Session of the Second Legislature, the following was approved:
AS REGARDS : The growth of the population and that of the number of voters in some municipalities has determined the need to increase the number of electoral constituencies so that the delegates of these constituencies can duly attend to their constituents.
AS REGARDS : In the municipality of Santiago de Cuba the number of constituencies reaches the maximum number allowed by the Law, and the excessive number of voters in many of them already makes the work of the delegates difficult without the creation of new constituencies.
AS REGARDS This growth of the population affects the increase in economic and social activities and influences the workload that members of the executive committees of the municipal assemblies of the People's Power must assume.
AS FOR: The Executive Committee of the Special Municipality Island of Youth develops its work in particular conditions and with a certain level of complexity, by linking directly to the central organs and agencies of the State, functioning in this appearance as the provinces do.
AS REGARDS : Law No. 37 of 15 August 1982-Electoral Law-establishes in Articles 47 and 107 the maximum number of electoral constituencies each municipality must have and the number of members of the executive committees of the assemblies. municipal of the People's Power, respectively.
AS FOR: It is necessary to amend the Electoral Law, in order to adapt some of the norms that it establishes to the demands currently expressed in Santiago de Cuba and in the future in other municipalities for the growth of its population, the increase of its economic and social activities or the special characteristics presented by the Special Municipality of the Isle of Youth.
BY TANT: The National Assembly of People's Power in use of the powers conferred upon them agrees:
ACT NO. 55
LAW ON THE LAW OF THE ELECTORAL LAW
ARTICLE 1.-Amend Article 47 of Law No. 37 of 15 August 1982-Electoral Law, which is worded as follows:
Article 47.-In each municipality the electoral constituencies are formed so that no one has less than thirty. Electoral constituencies should have as much uniformity as possible.
ARTICLE 2.-Amend Article 107 of Law No. 37 of 15 August 1982-Electoral Law-which is worded as follows:
Article 107. Once the Municipal Assembly has been established, it chooses, by means of the secret ballot, the members of its Executive Committee. It is composed of no less than five, no more than 15 delegates.
In the cases of municipalities with more than two hundred and fifty thousand inhabitants, and in the Special Municipality Island of Youth, the number of members of the Executive Committee may be increased, without exceeding twenty-one.
FINAL PROVISIONS
UNICA: This Law will begin to apply from its publication in the Official Gazette of the Republic.
DADO in the Chamber of sessions of the National Assembly of People's Power, Palace of the Conventions, Havana, Cuba, four days of the month of July of a thousand nine hundred and eighty-six.
Flavio Bravo Pardo
