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International Community Condemns the Electoral Farce Taking Place in Cuba Leaders from Europe and Latin America sign Declaration of Support for Multiparty Elections in Cuba. Among them the governing Centre Party, from Sweden, the Popular Party, from Spain, the Conservative Party of Great Britain and the Conservative Party of Norway ![]() Representatives of pro democratic Cuban exile organizations during a press conference at the Municipios de Cuba en el Exilio headquarters on January 17, 2008. (Cuban Democratic Directorate) At a press conference held at the headquarters of the Cuban Municipalities in Exile, located in southwest Miami, Cuban exile organizations supporting the campaign of non-cooperation with the Castro dictatorship announced new signatories to the Declaration from countries such as Austria, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Spain, Italy, Norway, Sweden, Britain, Peru, and Uruguay. They denounced the electoral farce which will take place in During the conference, the former political prisoner and pro-democracy leader, Rene Montes de Oca Martijas, said via telephone from Havana that: "We call on the Cuban people that next Sunday, January 20, is an opportunity for our people to say No to the electoral farce…". “We all at the European level and worldwide, especially the Democrat International Centre of which 200 countries are members reject this type of rigged election that is a farce in Below the Document and its signers: Declaration of Support for the Convocation of Multi-Party Elections in We, the undersigned, firstly deplore the electoral farce that began to be held on October 20, 2007 continued on October 28, 2007 and will conclude on January 20, 2008 in Cuba. With the object of attempting to legitimize military leader Raul Castro’s taking of power, a vote will be held in which the only candidates to participate are those from the only party recognized by that country’s dictatorship: the Cuban Communist Party (CCP). Secondly, we deplore that the Cuban regime is expressly violating Article 21 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, Article 25 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, Article 23 of the American Convention on Human Rights (the Pact of San Jose), and Article 20 of the American Declaration of the Rights and Duties of Man. In the same way, the Cuban government yet goes without fulfilling the agreement it ratified during the Ibero-American Summit held in The Cuban government cannot claim any “exceptional” political organization; it is simply and plainly a dictatorship under which the practices enumerated by the Inter-American Democratic Charter in the following articles are expressly prohibited: · Article 3: Essential elements of representative democracy include, inter alia, respect for human rights and fundamental freedoms, access to and the exercise of power in accordance with the rule of law, the holding of periodic, free, and fair elections based on secret balloting and universal suffrage as an expression of the sovereignty of the people, the pluralistic system of political parties and organizations, and the separation of powers and independence of the branches of government.
In consequence, thirdly we exhort the convocation of free elections in Cuba, that is to say pluralist and multi-party held under international supervision; the liberation of all those imprisoned for political reasons on the Island; and consequent guarantees of freedom of expression, association and assembly, including access to public communications media. Fourthly, we support the various civic expressions of non-cooperation by the Cuban people, and their right to declare themselves against oppression. Finally, we call upon the international democratic community, particularly the peoples and governments of Latin America, to assume an honest and determined commitment to democratic change in Signed:
Erik Sindey Kroiher International Secretary Austrian Peoples Party (ÖVP) Austria Otto Guevara Presidente Movimiento Libertario Costa Rica Miguel Tomás López Secretario General Alianza Republicana Nacionalista El Salvador Jorge Moragas Parlamentario Secretario de Relaciones Internacionales Partido Popular España Anna Maria Stame-Cervone Presidenta de Mujeres de la Internacional Demócrata de Centro (IFDC) Centrist Democrat International Italia Pier Ferdinando Casini Italian Chamber of Deputies Unione dei Democratici Cristiani (UDC) Italia Erminia Mazzoni Italian Chamber of Deputies Unione dei Democratici Cristiani (UDC) Italia Domenico Zinzi Italian Chamber of Deputies Unione dei Democratici Cristiani (UDC) Italia Paolo Bartolozzi Vice Presidente Consiglio Regionale Toscana Forza Italia Italo Bocchino Chamber of Deputies Alleanza Nazionale Italia Antonino Lo Presti Chamber of Deputies Alleanza Nazionale Italia Luca Bellotti Chamber of Deputies Alleanza Nazionale Italia Giustina Mistrello Destro Chamber of Deputies Forza Italia Italia Donato Bruno Chamber of Deputies Forza Italia Italia Michele Giuseppe Vietti Chamber of Deputies Unione Dei Democratici Cristiani Italia Laura Ravetto Chamber of Deputies Forza Italia Italia Maurizio Bernardo Chamber of Deputies Forza Italia Italia Mariastella Gelmini Chamber of Deputies Forza Italia Italia Carolina Lussana Chamber of Deputies Lega Nord Italia Jan Tore Sanner Member of Parliament Conservative Party of Trond Helleland Member of Parliament Conservative Party of Finn Martin Vallersnes Member of Parliament Conservative Party of Andre Dahl Member of Parliament Conservative Party of Elisabeth Aspaker Member of Parliament Conservative Party of Gunnar Gundersen Member of Parliament Conservative Party of Olemic Thommessen Member of Parliament Conservative Party of Peter Gitmark Member of Parliament Conservative Party of Ivar Kristiansen Member of Parliament Conservative Party of Sunniva Ihle, General Secretary Torbjørn Røe Isaksen Leader Young Conservatives Christian Angell Head of the International Office Conservative Party of Rafael Yamashiro Congresista de la República Vicepresidente Partido Popular Cristiano Perú Raúl Castro Stagnaro Congresista Secretario General Partido Popular Cristiano Perú Annie Johanson The Centre Party (Centerpartiet) Member of Parliament Fredrick Federley Member of Parliament The Centre Party (Centerpartiet) Mats Denninger President of the Centre Party International Foundation Mila Eklund International Delegate The Centre Party (Centerpartiet) Kerstin Lundgren Member of Parliament The Centre Party (Centerpartiet) Philippa Broom Director International Office The Conservative Party Pablo Iturralde Diputado Secretario de Relaciones Internacionales Partido Nacional Uruguay Jaime Trobo Diputado Partido Nacional Uruguay José Carlos Cardoso Diputado Partido Nacional Uruguay Gustavo Espinosa Integrante Comisión de DDHH de Cámara de Representantes Partido Colorado Uruguay Sandra Etcheverry Presidenta de la Comision para la Condicion de la Mujer de la Departamental de Montevideo Partido Nacional Uruguay
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