The new Constitution of the Republic of Cuba was approved popularly with 86.85 percent of the votes cast according to preliminary data, reported Alina Balseiro Gutiérrez, president of the National Electoral Commission, today. This February 24, of the 9,298,277 citizens with the right to vote, 7,848,343 (84.4%) went to the polls to answer the question: “Do you ratify the new Constitution of the Republic?

7,522,569 votes were accepted as valid. Balseiro Gutiérrez asserted that 6 million 816 thousand 169 voters voted YES (86.85%) and 706 thousand 400 voted NO (9.0%). 127,100 ballots were annulled and 198,674 were left blank.

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