The Homeland does not fit one more millimeter of pride. His noble people, and at the same time unredeemed, proof of his invincibility, his chest overflows with emotions. As stated by the First Secretary of the Party and President of the Republic, Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez, in the national elections Cuba won.
The saying goes that there is no Saturday without sun or Sunday without brightness. Well, this spring it was the lights of democracy that Cubans turned on, when times of storms and deficiencies are plaguing the world – stronger to our Island, victim of a cruel blockade –, a planet that is increasingly unequal, with multidimensional crises that fall with that force more on the nations of the South, overwhelmed by the gluttony of the arrogant north.
Cuban men and women, with the historic Sunday day of March 26, in which they sovereignly elected their deputies to the National Assembly of Popular Power, supported not only a social project, but also defended, even in the most adverse conditions of hostility of the usual enemy, the continuity of the Martí and Fidelista essence of a human social work par excellence.
If in Girón, in April 1961, there was a fight for socialism; if in October 1962 the Homeland grew for the same ideal; if in the face of the terrorist wave of the 70s we fly the same flag; if we responded with the All People's War against the fascistoid threats of the Reagan administration, just as we responded to Bush's threats; if in the 1990s we resisted the so-called special period, while the sell-outs rubbed their hands over "the imminent end of the Revolution"; now the feat was to rise, with a resounding triumph, over the objective difficulties and the new doomsayers.
As a guideline for what is to come, Díaz-Canel stated: "There is only one way to respond to this vote, which is extraordinary in the current conditions of the nation and the world: comply with the people."
Victory, in Fidel's words, reads like this: "People mean energy, people mean courage, people mean fighting spirit, people mean intelligence, people mean history."
That people made National Assembly, in its 470 elected deputies, now has the great mission of confronting, in order to help reverse it, the current economic situation, and turning the confidence that suffrage means into the realization of growing progress.
Those who expected abstentionism or indifference, for which they wove dirty hoaxes, backfired again.
Translate the numbers of Cuban democracy and you will read: nine out of ten Cubans who attended deposited a valid ballot; seven out of ten who actually voted did so for all the names on their ballot, and all of the 470 candidates in the country, which is to say absolutely all sectors of our society, without regard to any privilege, were elected deputies.
That is why Cuba won.
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