Cuba has voted this Sunday a referendum to, presumably, approve by majority the so-called ‘Family Code‘, which among other things, will legalize the gay marriage and the adoption of children by same-sex couples.
They also voted on the surrogacyban the child marriageensure the relationship between grandparents and grandchildren in case of divorcesthe visiting conditions of the abusive parents…
Among the voters was the president, Miguel Diaz-Canelwho gave his opinion on this code: he said that “it breaks prejudices that we had, taboos that we had in society” and that the text has motivated all kinds of analysis and popular debates: “We have grown as a society, we have grown in the spirituality of Cuba”.
Canel believes that the process of drafting the text has given rise to “a fair, necessary, up-to-date, modern normand that gives rights and guarantees to all the diversities of families, of people, of creeds”.
The dignitary also meant that the Family Code “has gone through a broad, popular discussion process that produced modifications.” In the same way, he emphasized that the legal text is the result “of popular debate, of social need, because we have been recognizing in recent years that our society has become more heterogeneous, Cuban families have changed, there are new types of families, there are new types of relationships.”
🗳️ | President @DiazCanelB already exercised his right to vote in the Popular Referendum of the #CodeOfTheFamilies.#CodeYes 🇨🇺 pic.twitter.com/XA668Y4piL
— Cuba Presidency 🇨🇺 (@PresidenciaCuba) September 25, 2022
The communist leader acknowledged that “there were also debts with the treatment, from the legal norm, to certain issues of inheritance, of affection that had been omitted and that I think it was fair that they be taken into account at a time like this.” And in this line of thought, he stressed that the Code “also started from studies, from situations of cases in court, from the daily experiences of different types of families, from events that have occurred at a certain time, from personal experiences.”
Possible results
Regarding the possible results of the vote, the Cuban president said: “The expectation is not that there will be a unanimous vote. I do believe that there will be a majority vote; most of our people will vote in favor of the Code”.
“We have not overcome in 62 years, in some people, in some families, a criterion of patriarchy in the conception of the family: there is not always an understanding of diversity,” he explained.
And without ignoring the respect that has been maintained for the law and the opinion of all, he recalled that “there are people who by faith, by creed, have not understood that the Code does not deny the type of family that they defend: the Code gives guarantees for that type of family, but it gives guarantees for other types of families”.
He did not rule out the “haters” from the current context, and in this sense he explained that there are those who demonstrate against the Family Code with “very aggressive, very vulgar language, full of hate”, and that if the legal text said Quite the opposite of what the one who has gone to the Referendum says, those “haters” would also be criticizing him.
Cuba voted the ‘Family Code’ in a referendum: marriage and adoption of homosexuals will be legalized