Cuban President Raul Castro, made the unprecedented proposal to Cuba limit to ten year term of office of officers, Saturday, April 16 before the Congress of the Communist Party of Cuba (PCC) which has adopted more than 300 economic measures to save Cuba bankruptcy. "We came to the conclusion that it was advisable to limit to a maximum of two consecutive five-year term limits political rights," he told the president before the thousand delegates of the Congress of the CPC, the first since 1997.
This measure, he said, aims to "ensure a systematic rejuvenation of the entire chain of responsibility" within the government, saying the measure would also apply to himself. "While we have always tried promote young people to key positions of responsibility, life has shown that these selections were not always the most appropriate, "said Raul, who was for nearly half a century the minister of defense of his brother Fidel , 84.
Raul Castro, who turns 80 on June 3, made the proposal - unprecedented in Cuba since the establishment of the Castro regime in 1959 - during an analysis of the political leadership of the island. Placing the Congress under the banner of "correcting the mistakes in the past five decades of socialist construction," Raul Castro called for "leave aside the formalism, dogmatism and stagnation." He also advocated a strong degreasing of the "nomenklatura" of the party, which must by Tuesday renewed its senior management.
In a speech two hours and twenty minutes, Raul Castro has also outlined the economic reforms that must be defined and adopted by Congress. More than 300 economic measures will be submitted to Congress. Job cuts in the public sector, opening the economy to private initiative, the autonomy of state enterprises, reform of the agri-food and openness to foreign capital are the main areas proposed reforms to the Sixth Congress of the CCP. 
This measure, he said, aims to "ensure a systematic rejuvenation of the entire chain of responsibility" within the government, saying the measure would also apply to himself. "While we have always tried promote young people to key positions of responsibility, life has shown that these selections were not always the most appropriate, "said Raul, who was for nearly half a century the minister of defense of his brother Fidel , 84.
Raul Castro, who turns 80 on June 3, made the proposal - unprecedented in Cuba since the establishment of the Castro regime in 1959 - during an analysis of the political leadership of the island. Placing the Congress under the banner of "correcting the mistakes in the past five decades of socialist construction," Raul Castro called for "leave aside the formalism, dogmatism and stagnation." He also advocated a strong degreasing of the "nomenklatura" of the party, which must by Tuesday renewed its senior management.
In a speech two hours and twenty minutes, Raul Castro has also outlined the economic reforms that must be defined and adopted by Congress. More than 300 economic measures will be submitted to Congress. Job cuts in the public sector, opening the economy to private initiative, the autonomy of state enterprises, reform of the agri-food and openness to foreign capital are the main areas proposed reforms to the Sixth Congress of the CCP.
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