Raúl Castro said in 2018 he wanted Díaz-Canel to be his successor as party leader.
Iconic leader Raúl Castro is expected to step down as First Secretary of Cuba s Communist Party (PCC) as the VIII Congress of the PCC is set to start this Friday at the Havana Convention Center, under the title “The Congress of the historical continuity of the Cuban Revolution.”
About a thousand delegates are expected to meet until April 19 to discuss the country s response to the coronavirus pandemic, the deepening of economic reforms, the impact of greater access to the Internet and the formation of new political cadres. But most significant of all will be appointment of the PCC authorities, which for the first time since the 1959 Revolution, will not include a member of the Castro lineage of Fidel and later Raúl.
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