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🇨🇺 Cuba

One-party socialist republic

SystemOne-party socialist republic
Head of statePresident Miguel Díaz-Canel, who is also First Secretary of the Communist Party
Head of governmentPrime Minister Manuel Marrero Cruz
LegislatureNational Assembly of People's Power · about 470 seats
ElectionsNational votes are held but only candidates approved under the one-party system may stand · no opposition parties are permitted
Last election2023-03 · National Assembly election
Next election2028 · National Assembly election due

The Communist Party is constitutionally the only legal party, and the National Assembly elects the president. Cuba faces its deepest economic crisis since the 1990s, with chronic blackouts, shortages and the largest emigration wave in its history. Díaz-Canel succeeded Raúl Castro as president in 2018 and as party chief in 2021, the first non-Castro to hold both posts since the revolution.

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