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== Legislature ==

[[File:Capitolio full.jpg|thumb|[[El Capitolio]], former seat of the [[National Assembly of People's Power]].]]
Cuba has an elected national [[legislature]], the [[National Assembly of People's Power]] (''Asamblea Nacional del Poder Popular''),<ref name=":02">{{Cite book |last=Cederlöf |first=Gustav |title=The Low-Carbon Contradiction: Energy Transition, Geopolitics, and the Infrastructural State in Cuba |date=2023 |publisher=[[University of California Press]] |isbn=978-0-520-39313-4 |series=Critical environments: nature, science, and politics |location=Oakland, California}}</ref>{{Rp|page=38}} which has 612 members, elected every 5 years and holds brief sessions to ratify decisions by the executive branch. The National Assembly convenes twice a year in ordinary periods of sessions. However, it has permanent commissions to look after issues of legislative interest. Among its permanent or temporary commissions are those in charge of issues concerning the economy, sugar industry, industries, transportation and communications, constructions, foreign affairs, public health, defense and interior order. The National Assembly also has permanent departments that oversee the work of the Commissions, Local Assemblies of the People's Power, International Relations, Judicial Affairs and the Administration.<ref>[http://www.hellocuba.ca/political_system.php#Cuban_Political_System Cuban Political system] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191224112550/http://www.hellocuba.ca/political_system.php#Cuban_Political_System |date=2019-12-24 }} Cuba education tools.</ref>

Article 88(h) of the [[Constitution of Cuba]], adopted in 1976, provides for citizen proposals of law, prerequisite that the proposal be made by at least 10,000 citizens who are eligible to vote. In 2002 supporters of a movement known as the [[Varela Project]] submitted a citizen proposal of law with 11,000 signatures calling for a national referendum on political and economic reforms. The Government response was to collect 8.1 million signatures to request that Cuba's National Assembly enact a constitutional amendment making socialism an unalterable feature of Cuban government.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.foxnews.com/story/cubas-parliament-seeks-to-approve-constitutional-change-ratifying-socialism/|title=Cuba's Parliament Seeks to Approve Constitutional Change Ratifying Socialism|publisher=Associated Press|date=June 21, 2002|access-date=January 21, 2016}}</ref>