Cuban President Raul Castro. (REUTERS/Javier Galeano)Havana (Reuters)-people's power National Assembly, Sunday (25/2), choose the back Cuban Raul Castro Ruz for a term of five-second year.
The members of the Tribunal with 612 choose Raul, aged 82 years in June, the President of the Council of State, laporXinhua.
"The people's power National Assembly today approved, in the capital, Army General Raul Castro Ruz as President of the Council of State, and chose Miguel Diaz-Canel Bermudez as Vice President I," said the National Institute of information (AIN) Cuban, belonging to the State.
Diaz-Canel replaces Jose Ramon Machado Ventura, who will become one of five Vice Presidents.
Diaz-Canel (52) before I became Secretary of the Communist Party (CCP) for the Cuban province of Villa Clara in the central part of the country and the province of Holguin in the East, as well as the Minister of higher education, according to the Xinhua report--monitored Between Monday morning in Jakarta.
Machado Ventura joined as one of the Vice Presidents is another supporter of the Cuban revolution, Commander Ramiro Valdes.
People who have been fulfilling our duties as Vice President of Cuba's Council of State Esteban Lazo, Member of the CCP Politburo--since 1985, was elected President of the National Assembly to replace Ricardo Alarcon de Quesada (75), who has led the Assembly since 1993.
Lazo, a 69-year-old on Tuesday and economists, is seen as part of the second generation of Cuban revolutionary leader. The first group consists of the dissident leader Fidel Castro overthrew Fulgencio Batista, in 1959. (C003)
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