President Miguel Diaz-Canel wins a landslide vote of 97.66% of the National Assembly, all of whose 470 members are aligned with the party or sympathetic to it.
HAVANA, Cuba – Cuban lawmakers on Wednesday, April 19, easily reelected Miguel Diaz-Canel as president for a second term as the country faces one of the biggest social and economic crisis since Fidel Castro’s 1959 revolution.
The assembly also reelected Salvador Valdes as Cuba’s vice-president and Manuel Marrero as prime minister. Hundreds of thousands have migrated off the Caribbean island in the past year, fleeing economic ruin. The silver-haired Diaz-Canel, born just after Castro’s revolution took hold, has expressed regret for being unable to revive the island’s ailing economy.
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