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HAVANA Authentic Evgeny Kuznetsov Jersey , Sept. 4 (Xinhua) -- Thousands of Cubans gathered in neighborhood assemblies which began on Monday night to nominate candidates for local and regional representatives, marking the first step toward the eventual election of a successor to top leader Raul Castro.


In this first stage, which will run until Sept. 30, two or more candidates for "delegates" will be nominated in the more than 12,000 districts of the country according to their merits Authentic T. J. Oshie Jersey , prestige and ability to contribute to the communities.


In one of Old Havana's most popular neighborhoods, about 200 people met in a street adorned with Cuban flags and a banner with a picture of late leader, Fidel Castro, to nominate the candidates who will best represent them over the next two and a half years.


"The most important thing this process has is that as neighbors we propose our candidates. We nominate those who care about the problems of the population and the community," Gladys Marce Authentic Nicklas Backstrom Jersey , one of the participants in the nomination assembly, told Xinhua.


On this first night, an assembly was held in each of the country's 168 municipalities, while during the next three weeks more than 45,000 neighborhood meetings will take place to nominate candidates for local representatives.


"I owe myself to the voters; I always try to solve our neighborhood's problems and deal with State entities to find a solution to the issues of those whom I represent Authentic Alex Ovechkin Jersey ," Nereyda Soto, a current district delegate, told Xinhua.


Soto, who was also nominated for a possible fourth term, said these assemblies mean a "genuine exercise of true democracy" because anyone can nominate a neighbor regardless of their political ideas.


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"People are nominated here because of their merits and social trajectory. The voters decide who will represent them to better solve the main local problems," said Soto, who is 76 years old.


Elections for delegates to municipal and provincial assemblies will take place on Oct. 22. The process will conclude in February when the new members of parliament will elect the nation's top leader.


A total of 338,900 young Cubans older than 16 years will vote for the first time.


Many young people will participate in verifying these assemblies to prevent frauds.


The island's youth is having a leading and decisive role in these elections to "ensure" continuity of the political process started in 1959, 20-year-old university student Gerardo Puentes told Xinhua.


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The Oct. 22 election will be the first in a series of votes for local, provincial and national officials.


The National Assembly is expected to pick the president and members of the Council of State in February, when Raul Castro is expected to step down.


Raul Castro, 86, took the helm of the country in 2008 from his late brother Fidel Castro. He has launched a series of socioeconomic reforms welcomed by his countrymen.


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PYONGYANG, April 14 (Xinhua) -- Kim Jong Un, the supreme leader of the Democratic People's Repulic of Korea (DPRK), has lately highlighted the role of special forces of the Korean People's Army (KPA) in combating enemy forces of the United States and South Korea.


Local official media said Thursday that Kim, who is Supreme Commander of the KPA Alex Ovechkin Jersey , has recently inspected several units of KPA special forces in the army, navy and air force, saying he was satisfied with their full preparedness for war.


When guiding the "Dropping and Target-striking Contest of KPA Special Operation Forces - 2017", Kim listened to a report on the program of the contest and issued an order for start at the observation post, said Korean Central News Agency (KCNA).


Seeing light transport planes made zero-feet flights in the sky dropping combatants Washington Capitals T-Shirts , Kim was pleased that "the commanding officers of those task forces and pilots of the transport planes properly fixed the dropping place, the flight altitude and the dropping moment in a coordinated operation and they seemed to have made a deep study of the reconnaissance data about the enemy targets."


The contest was held at a time when tension is increasing between the DPRK and the United States over Washington's threat to stage military strikes against Pyongyang over its nuclear and missile tests.


The DPRK military has vowed to make its own preemptive strike at a time it considers appropriate.


With about 100,000 or 10 percent of the KPA personnel, the special forces are an elite force known for several infiltration operations in South Korea and abroad, notably the attack upon the Chong Wa Dae presidential palace in Seoul in 1968 and a submarine infiltration on the western coast of South Korea in 1996.


In January 1968 Washington Capitals Hoodie , 31 KPA special force fighters attacked the Chong Wa Dae presidential palace, two of whom escaped back home alive while 29 were killed.


In September 1996, a submarine of the KPA was grounded off the western coast of South Korea and 26 special force fighters infiltrated the inner land for nearly two months. Most of them were killed in fighting with South Korean and U.S. forces.