11:22 NZDT Mon Feb 25 2013
Raul Castro has been re-elected as Cuba's president.
11:22 Mon Feb 25 2013
AAP
Raul Castro has been
re-elected as Cuba's president, to his last five-year term, with a new
regime number two: Council of State Vice President Miguel Diaz-Canel.
"The National Assembly of People's Power today approved, in this capital, Army General Raul Castro Ruz as president of the Council of State, and elected Miguel Diaz-Canel Bermudez, as its first vice president," according to the AIN news agency on Sunday.
Diaz-Canel, who turns 53 in April, is an electrical engineer by training, a former education minister and the president's de facto political heir seeking to project into the future the Americas' only one-party Communist regime.
Raul Castro, now 81, became interim president when his brother, revolution icon Fidel, took ill in 2006. He then formally became president in 2008.
The National Assembly, whose members ran for office in October unopposed, also chose Esteban Lazo, 69, as their new speaker.
"The National Assembly of People's Power today approved, in this capital, Army General Raul Castro Ruz as president of the Council of State, and elected Miguel Diaz-Canel Bermudez, as its first vice president," according to the AIN news agency on Sunday.
Diaz-Canel, who turns 53 in April, is an electrical engineer by training, a former education minister and the president's de facto political heir seeking to project into the future the Americas' only one-party Communist regime.
Raul Castro, now 81, became interim president when his brother, revolution icon Fidel, took ill in 2006. He then formally became president in 2008.
The National Assembly, whose members ran for office in October unopposed, also chose Esteban Lazo, 69, as their new speaker.
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