First Vice President Miguel Diaz-Canel said the voting will deliver a message to the world. The municipal elections themselves were delayed more than a month by Hurricane Irma, which damaged large swaths of Cuba's northern coast. Sunday's winners will form a pool of thousands of officials from which commissions will pick candidates for Cuba's provincial and national assemblies. After votes for those bodies in coming months, the new national assembly will pick the president and other top officials. Without differing political platforms to choose from, Cuban elections serve in part as gauges of government support, as measured by turnout.

Source: Fox News November 27, 2017 00:33 UTC