Thursday, April 19, 2018

Cuba’s National Assembly announced on Thursday that 57 year old then-incumbent First Vice President of Cuba Miguel Diaz-Canel, would succeed Raul Castro, 86, as President of the Council of State and President of the Council of Ministers. The National Assembly voted 603 to 1 in favour of Diaz-Canel. Diaz-Canel is a Politburo member of the Communist Party of Cuba. Despite the change in leadership, Castro will still retain his most powerful position as First Secretary of the Communist Party that exercise a large measure of control on the Cuban government.

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