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October 7, 2002



FROM CUBA

Results of poll show criticism of government

HAVANA, October 4 (José Izquierdo, Grupo Decoro) - A poll of 720 residents in the city Havana and surrounding province showed that 100 per cent of those surveyed favored a plebiscite on Cuba's future supervised by international observers.

As for a recent plebiscite carried out by the government that gave overwhelming support to enshrining the socialist system in the Constitution, 98 per cent said they did not find the result credible.

Miguel Galbán, president of the Cuba Commission that carried out the polling, told Grupo Decoro: "This consultation shows the wishes of the Cuban people because those who participated could express themselves freely, without fearing informers, agents of the political police or members of the Communist Party."

The poll also showed that 100 per cent of those polled felt the government was responsible for the economic crisis affecting Cuba.

Sixty per cent said they voted in the government's Popular Power plebiscite out of fear of being of being denounced for not doing so.

The polling was carried out in Havana, Diez de Octubre, Arroyo Naranjo, Güines, Madruga, San José de las Lajas and San Nicolás de Bari.


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