Politic and government

 

It does not constitute an intermediate instance for the purposes of the political-administrative division and without having subordinate administrative structures, it exercises the attributions and functions granted by the Constitution and the laws, with the active participation of the people in the interest of the community and the whole society; it represents the demarcation where it acts and is, at the same time, representative of the organs of the municipal, provincial and national Popular Power before the population, the institutions and entities located in it. In the Tenth Session of the National Assembly of People's Power of its Third Legislature, December 1991, the extension of the existence of the People's Councils to the whole country, both in rural and urban areas, was authorized.

 

Popular participation, in the activity of the People's Council, constitutes the fundamental way to carry out its work. It is present from the identification of problems and needs and their possible solutions, to the adoption of decisions, as well as in the planning, development and evaluation of the main actions carried out in the demarcation. It promotes the massive participation of the residents of the demarcation in the search for unity, consensus, identity and sense of belonging of the citizens for the community, the territory and the country. As well as work programs that involve neighbors and specific sectors, such as children, youth, the elderly, housewives and others, according to their needs and interests.