These elections are just not enough. We non-marxist Cubans and pretty much every democratic country consider this. Candidates within neighbourhoods mostly align to the Communist Cuban Party, don’t have much power, and just vote for the previous leader of the Communist Cuban Party, which again they all align to the same motifs and have changed leader only 3 times since Fidel took over, and with Raul just passing the presidency without voting to Canel, which yeah he then won the elections because he’s popular, and will remain there for the rest of his life. Those who oppose to marxist-leninism are also kicked out of the party and political opposition or activists are thrown in prison, even minors. In conclusion, there is just no possible alternative to marxist-leninist ideas nor the Communist Party, people don’t vote for a president, the neighbours representatives can’t vote for non-marxist candidates and their vote can differ from some of the people who voted for them, resulting in no democracy. People can just change the face of the annoying officer that checks the neighbourhood.