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ences regarding different, pluralistic,
electoral systems. This narrative
describes a strategy that Consenso Constitucional is either already deploying or
planning for the reform of our political
system and the reinvention of a modern
State based on a State of Law, fundamental freedoms, and deliberative democracy as the grease and tools for a
strong democracy. Consenso Constitucional keeps working.

of said exercise is the popular vote, by
which both representatives are elected to
the National Assembly, and delegates to
the Municipal Assemblies. The latter
approve or reject the candidacies of the
former. Dictator Fidel Castro, himself,
stated explicitly how the people could
revoke “irrevocable” socialism (Cf. Biografía a dos voces, Debate, 2006, página
555).
** The National Assembly’s (AN) Constitutional and Legal Issues Commission
already made clear that current Law does
not acknowledge “the collection of signatures, no matter how many, to promote
an legal initiative,” in its response to the
Varela Project on November 1, 2002.

Editor’s Notes:
* Article 137 already establishes a
mechanism for direct exercise, as it subordinates the substantial reforms to the
Constitution to popular referendum,
thanks to the fact the classic expression

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