{"id":212505,"date":"2020-01-18T17:31:12","date_gmt":"2020-01-18T22:31:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/?p=212505"},"modified":"2020-01-18T17:31:12","modified_gmt":"2020-01-18T22:31:12","slug":"cuban-parliament-to-pass-14-laws-in-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/cuba\/cuban-parliament-to-pass-14-laws-in-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"Cuban parliament to pass 14 laws in 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"

A total of 14 laws must be approved by the Cuban National Assembly in 2020, according to the legislative schedule endorsed by the Cuban parliament last December and <\/span>published<\/span><\/a> this week in the Official Gazette<\/em>.<\/span><\/p>\n

According to the schedule approved on December 21, 2019, which follows the guidelines of the island\u2019s <\/span>new Constitution<\/span><\/a>, the first laws that will be presented for consideration by the Assembly will be five: the one concerning the Foreign Service, Revocation and the organization and operation of the Council of Ministers, the Provincial Government of People\u2019s Power, and the Municipal Administration Council.<\/span><\/p>\n

All of them are scheduled for July 2020, when the year\u2019s first ordinary session of parliament takes place.<\/span><\/p>\n

Five others, including those on the People’s Courts and Criminal Procedure, are scheduled for the October session, while in December four important laws must be passed: the law of the president and vice president of the Republic, Defense and National Security, the one on the Housing, and the one on Public Health.<\/span><\/p>\n

This set of laws will be the vanguard of the 39 planned until the closing of the current legislature of the National Assembly in 2022. Together with them, there are also 31 decree-laws, which have to be approved by the Council of State, and of which 15 correspond to the next 12 months.<\/span><\/p>\n

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