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Cuba will decide on the legalization of same-sex marriage during the updating of the new Family Code, whose text will be presented in 2021 following the legislative schedule approved this Saturday by the island\u2019s <\/span>National Assembly<\/span><\/a> and stipulated in the newly approved Constitution.<\/span><\/p>\n

According to this schedule, the first draft of the new code will be presented in March 2021, to later start the popular consultation. In December of that same year the final text must be approved, the only one that will undergo a referendum among the 70 legal norms updated with the new <\/span>Magna Carta<\/span><\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

In one of its most controversial turns, the final draft of the Constitution eliminated the article that opened the door to same-sex marriage on the island and postponed the debate until the approval of a future Family Code, in a government effort to ensure support to the new constitutional text in <\/span>last February\u2019s referendum<\/span><\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

The decision was justified by the need \u201cto respect all opinions\u201d that emerged in the popular consultation of the document, in which many were against changing the definition of marriage, which in the former Magna Carta was established as the union \u201cbetween a man and a woman.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

The initial draft of the new Constitution proposed to change those terms to those of \u201cunion between two persons with legal capacity to do so,\u201d but finally it was decided to eliminate any definition.<\/span><\/p>\n

The issue sparked discussions in the debates and confronted sides opposed to LGTBI activism and the faithful of various religious denominations, with special weight from the Catholic Church and the evangelicals, which are increasingly present on the island.<\/span><\/p>\n

Mariela Castro, daughter of former President Ra\u00fal Castro and director of the National Center for Sex Education, one of the most visible faces of Cuban LGTBI activism, called for \u201ca solid communication campaign to inform the population before and during the consultation process.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cA legislation like this not only regulates marriage, but guarantees the rights of girls, mothers, women, grandmothers, among others,\u201d said the deputy, one of the defenders in Parliament of the approval of same-sex marriage.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Mariela Castro during the 10th Cuban Day against Homophobia and Transphobia in 2018. Photo: Otmaro Rodr\u00edguez \/ Archive.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Cuban lawmakers will modify and approve 39 laws and 31 decree-laws in a schedule that runs until 2022 and \u201cresponds to the need for each law to strictly comply with what has been approved,\u201d said Justice Minister Oscar Silvera.<\/span><\/p>\n

To advance the process, the Assembly\u2015which has only two regular meetings per year\u2015will hold extraordinary sessions in April and October.<\/span><\/p>\n

In the last parliamentary session of 2019, Cuban deputies also appointed as prime minister Manuel Marrero, until now minister of tourism, and six deputy prime ministers, all at the proposal of President Miguel D\u00edaz-Canel.<\/span><\/p>\n

New Ministers of Labor and Social Security, Food Industry, Industries and Energy and Mines were also appointed, all departments of great importance in the current economic situation the island is experiencing.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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