The Bush administration rejected Cuban leader Raul Castro’s decision to hold elections for the National Assembly in late October. Despite Raul’s comments several months ago on a change of leadership on the island, State Department spokesman Tom Casey doubted that the elections would be “free and fair”: “If Castro-lite, meaning Raul Castro (image), wants to hold elections-lite, meaning the kind that they have held in the past -- single party elections that don't allow the people to have a choice and only allow them to ratify the rule of the current dictatorship -- whether its Fidel Castro's name that is on top of the ballot or Raul Castro's doesn't really matter much.”Reuters deemed the National Assembly as “a rubber-stamp parliament which meets only twice a year for a day or so,” though the more vital issue is whether or not the electoral process indicates a political transition away from the ailing Fidel Castro.
Sources- Caribbean Net News,
Image- BBC News
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