[3] Voters must be Cuban citizens who have reached the age of 16 years, have not been declared mentally disabled by a court and have not committed a crime.

[5] Pre-candidates are proposed by the mass organizations at plenary sessions at the municipal, provincial and national level consisting of representatives of workers, youth, women, students, farmers and members of the Committees for the Defense of the Revolution.

[5][6] Candidacy commissions at each level, whose members are chosen by these mass organizations and presided over by a representative of the Central Union of Cuban Workers, compile the lists of candidates for each municipality from the pre-candidate proposals.

[5] Preliminary results showed that all 470 proposals that made up the candidacy were ratified by more than half of the valid votes cast by the population.

[8] Further, the proportion of voters selecting specific candidates on the ballot rather than approving the entire list rose to almost 28%, more than 8% higher than the amount that had done so in 2018.