Cuba Government 1986, CIA World Factbook

Cuba Index 1986

Official name· Republic of Cuba

Type: Communist state

Political subdivisions: 14 provincesand lb9 municipalities

Legal system: based on Spanish and American law, with large elements of Communist legal theory; Fundamental Law of 1959 replaced constitution of 1940, a new constitution was approved at the Cuban Communist Party’s First Party Congress in December 1975 and by a popular referendum, which took place on 15 February 1976; portions of the new constitution were put into effect on 24 February 1976, by means of a Constitutional Transition Law, and the entire constitution became effective on 2 December 1976; legal education at the Universities of Havana, Oriente, and Las Villas; does not accept compulsory ICJ jurisdiction

National holiday: Anniversary of the Revolution, 1 January

Branches: executive; legislature (National Assembly of the People’s Power); controlled judiciary

Government leader: Fidel CASTRO Ruz, President (since January 1959)

Suffrage: universal but not compulsory over age 16

Elections: National People’s Assembly (indirect election) every five years; last election held November 1981

Political parties and leaders: Cuban Communist Party (PCC), First Secretary Fidel Castro Ruz, Second Secretary Raul Castro Ruz

Communists: approx 400.000 party members

Member of: CEMA, ECL A, FAO, G-77, GATT, 1ADB (nonparticipant), IAEA, ICAO, IFAD, ICO, IHO, 1LO, IMO, IRC, ISO, ITU, 1WC—International Wheat

Council, NAM, OAS i,nonparticipant), PAHO, Permanent Court of Arbitration, Postal Union of the Americas and Spain, SELA, UN, UNESC :O, UNIDO, UPU, WFTU, W HO, WIPO, WMO, WSG, WTO

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