Jerónimo de Sousa, General Secretary of the Portuguese Communist Party, sent today his fraternal felicitations to Miguel Díaz-Canel on his election as President of the State Council and of the Council of Ministers of the Republic of Cuba, along with best wishes of success in the highest post in the Cuban State.
Jerónimo de Sousa underlines that this «election culminates an electoral process of exemplary participation, in itself a powerful affirmation of patriotism and revolutionary consciousness, of the character of the Cuban Revolution, and the commitment of the Cuban people to the values of Socialism».
Also saluting the Communist Party of Cuba and his First-Secretary Raúl Castro, the General-Secretary of PCP expressed «with the Cuban people, the solidarity of Portuguese Communists and their determination to pursue the struggle towards an end to interferences, campaigns and attacks upon the Republic of Cuba, in particular the US criminal blockade».