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[–] MothmanDelorian@lemmy.world 6 points 2 months ago (4 children)

Im a different poster than the last person and generally unfamiliar with the Cuban electoral structure, are they able to run non-communist/non-Marxist candidates? If they cannot legally do so they do not have free elections using the standard definition of "free elections".

[–] PolandIsAStateOfMind@lemmy.ml 18 points 2 months ago

Yes they are, even wiki would show you there's 28 unaffiliated members in Nation Assembly, and also you may read about how it look here - Cuba is way more democratic than literally every capitalist country.

[–] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 13 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Yes, you can, though they lose because the Cuban people ultimatley support their system.

[–] ChairmanMeow@programming.dev -1 points 2 months ago

No candidate for the Cuban national assembly has ever lost an election though?

Cuba selects a candidate for each seat, and voters can either approve or disapprove them (requiring a new candidate to be chosen). But this has never happened in Cuban history.

[–] AFC1886VCC@reddthat.com 7 points 2 months ago (2 children)

"Free" elections in Cuba would just mean immediate US vassalage. Influencing elections in the Caribbean and Latin America is a practically a US hobby.

[–] jerkface@lemmy.ca 10 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

Right? It's easy to bloviate about "free, ~~democratic~~ fair elections" when you're the world's superpower. When you live NEXT to the world's superpower, there's no such thing.

[–] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 7 points 2 months ago

Fantastically well said. Cuba's a very democratic country, moreso than the US, so when people accuse it of not being so that can only mean they wish to remove the safeguards preventing US recolonization.

[–] MothmanDelorian@lemmy.world -4 points 2 months ago

If giving the Cubans the choice to no longer pursue Marxism resulted in them choosing to no longer follow Marxism why should that be stopped? If that was what the population wanted why should the state force them to adhere to an unwanted ideology?

[–] BrainInABox@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 months ago

That idiot literally thinks Castro is still alive and that Cuba has a "throne", don't act like westerners have any idea about the specifics of Cuban elections law when they're giving their ignorant opinions of it.