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Democracy and legality

Consenso Constitucional,
#OTRO18 and Unlocking
the Constitution
Manuel Cuesta Morúa
Historian and political scientist
National Coordinator, Progressive Arc Party
National Coordinator, Nuevo País Platform
Havana, Cuba

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ith #OTRO18, Consenso Constitucional has been practically landing in the
constitutional reform project in two ways: getting the horizontal participation of the majority of the civil society organizations and opening up the
political game through the citizenry’s concrete political participation via proposals for
reforms to electoral law and the Law of Association, to seek the legal participation of
political parties. For our strategic proposal’s purposes, we must briefly analyze some
the current Constitution’s limiting articles.

What does Article 3 of the Constitution
say?
“In the Republic of Cuba sovereignty
lies in the people, from who originates
all the power of the State. That power is
exercised directly or through the assemblies of People’s Power and other state
bodies, which derive their authority from
these assemblies, in the form and according to the norms established in the
Constitution and by law. When no other

recourse is possible, all citizens have the
right to struggle through all means, including armed struggle, against anyone
who tries to overthrow the political, social and economic order established in
this Constitution. Socialism, as well as
the revolutionary political and social
system established by this Constitution,
has been forged during years of heroic
resistance to the aggression of every
kind and economic war waged by the

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