Cuba to hold partial elections in April

Cuba's State Council convened about eight million voters for partial elections in April to choose the delegates for a two-and-a-half-year-term to the 168 municipal assemblies of the People's Power.

This first round of the elections is scheduled for April 19, and the second will be held April 26 in those constituencies where no candidates obtains over 50 percent of the valid votes, Xinhua reported citing an official release published by the daily Granma.

Cuban electoral law establishes that if there is a tie in any constituency, a third round or more will be necessary to define an electoral winner.

This is the 16th electoral process on the island since the establishment of the People's Power, the country's unicameral parliament, in 1976.

Cuba's last legislative elections were held in October 2012.