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The National Assembly of People's Power, in its tenth legislature, approved on Thursday the Law of Social Communication, during the second extraordinary session that takes place at the Palace of Conventions of Havana.

The president of the National Assembly, Esteban Lazo Hernández, explained that the creation of the norm, initially as a Decree-Law and then as a Law, is the result of a broad and rigorous process of collective construction, in which professionals and experts from different disciplines, organizations and institutions have participated until reaching version 34 of the document.

The president of the Institute of Communication and Social Information, Alfonso Noya Martínez, presented the bill to the deputies and affirmed that he recognizes the contribution of social communication to strengthen the unity of the people, strengthen the ideology of our socialist society and defend the independence, sovereignty and security of the homeland , a contribution of greater transcendence in the scenario of political, ideological, economic, communicational and cultural war facing the Cuban Revolution.

"The project that was presented to Parliament followed the most democratic path, that of collective construction," he said.

The transition to the present version included, from July to October 2022, the realization throughout the country of the process of specialized consultations of the Draft Law in which students and university professors, journalists, artists, social communicators and other professionals, delegates to the Municipal Assemblies of People's Power and deputies, political and government leaders participated. entrepreneurs and new economic actors.

He added that the process resulted in thousands of opinions and a set of considerations received through email and other digital channels.

The new Project -from the How Many to the Final Provisions- registers 69 changes of content and form, which represent a 59.48% transformation with respect to the original text of version 33 submitted to the second consultation with the deputies.

Noya Martínez stressed that version 34 of the Social Communication Bill that was submitted to the consideration of the deputies this Thursday "is more solid, mature and comprehensive" than the one delivered in December to the National Assembly of People's Power.

It has a higher level of academic, professional and social consensus, achieved on the basis of dialogue, attention to each opinion and the breadth of the democratic exercise deconstruction and enrichment of the norm, he argued.

The purpose of the Law is to regulate the Social Communication System for the strategic and integrated management of social communication processes in the organizational, media and community spheres, for political, public good, organizational and commercial purposes, both in physical and digital public spaces.

It also includes establishing the principles of organization and operation for all means of social communication in the country.

The deputy José Luis Toledo Santander read the opinion on the draft Law of Social Communication, and stressed the broad process of discussion to which the norm was subjected, which allowed a remarkable enrichment of the content.

A document better conceived in its concepts and with greater clarity in its content has been reached, assuming social communication as the basis of human communication, he said.

The country recognizes, through this bill, the importance of legislating in a single legal body everything related to communication, combining the different areas that it includes such as the media, organizational, commercial and institutional, he said.

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