US EditionCuba Removes From Its Constitution the Requirement to Be Under 60 Years Old to Be President
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When Nauris Leyva Mejías (35) lived in Cuba, he dreamed of living in freedom. And like many Cubans...
Cuba's National Assembly of People's Power (ANPP) adopted a constitutional reform on Saturday, which removes the age limit to take the country's presidency.
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The Frontier PostCuba ends maximum age limit of 60 for presidential candidates
HAVANA: Cuba scrapped the maximum age limit of 60 for its presidential candidates as part of a constitutional reform approved Friday by parliament. The communist-ruled island’s restriction of two five-year presidential terms and minimum age of 35 for candidates were left unchanged. The measure, approved by the Council of State, imposes no age limits on people “in the full
The 440 members present in the monocameral Parliament unanimously approved the new provision on Friday.
Associated Press News
HAVANA (AP) — On Friday, Cuban deputies approved a reform of the Constitution to eliminate the requirement that he should be under 60 years old to be elected president of the country, a condition that was incorporated into the Magna Carta following the mandates of Fidel and Raúl Castro.
This limit had been set at 60 years, for a first candidacy, by the 2019 Constitution.
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