Municipal Elections Ballots Cast by 96.27 Percent of Cubans (Prensa Latina)
Havana.- Preliminary results showed that 8 168 253 Cubans, 96.27 percent, exercised their right to vote Sunday in the municipal elections. At a special meeting yesterday Cuban President Fidel Castro announced the participation stats, which were higher than last municipal elections at 95.75 percent. The National Electoral Commission will shortly reveal the results of the first round in the elections to choose the delegates to the People´s Power Municipal Assembly (local governments). The Cuban leader offered this information at the end of a speech at the International Conference Center of Havana in which he continued the analysis and denounced the presence of terrorist Luis Posada Carriles in the United States.
CUBA DAILY REPORT Monday, April 18, 2005 (Exclusive Service of Prensa Latina)
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