Granma International

N A T I O N A L
Havana. February 3, 2003
Juan Contino, Havana’s new mayor

JUAN Contino Aslan, former National Coordinator of the
Committees for the Defense of the Revolution (CDR), has
been elected president of Havana’s Provincial Assembly of
People’s Power, a position equivalent to that of mayor.

After acknowledging his labors in the CDR movement for
more than eight years, particularly in the function and
application of cadre policies, the organization’s national
administration relieved Contino of those responsibilities.

According to electoral law, the 1,999-plus provincial
delegates voted in at the January 19 national elections,
met on February 2 to constitute the higher agencies of
state power in each of the country’s 14 provinces,
including City of Havana and Santiago de Cuba.