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Reuters
Reuters
Politics
By Dave Sherwood and Nelson Acosta

FORGOTTEN HISTORY: Cuban lawmakers vote for president amid crisis no change expected - Caught on Camera

People talk in an electrical repair shop as Cuba's President and First Secretary of the Communist Party Miguel Diaz-Canel, seen live on TV, addresses lawmakers after being re-elected during a National Assembly session in Havana, Cuba, April 19, 2023. REUTERS/Alexandre Meneghini

Cuban lawmakers on Wednesday easily re-elected Miguel Diaz-Canel as president for a second term as the country faces one of the biggest social and economic crisis since Fidel Castro's 1959 revolution.

Diaz-Canel, leader of the Communist Party - the country's only recognized political movement - won a landslide vote of 97.66% of the National Assembly, all of whose 470 members are aligned with the party or sympathetic to it.

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