HAVANA –
The daughter of Cuban president Raúl Castro feels there is nothing for the baton from her father to take over. Mariela Castro (54) said on Wednesday no interest in the highest office in the communist island nation.
The 85-year-old Raúl Castro has announced at the beginning of next year to resign. His second term of office at the end. According to observers has first vice president Miguel Díaz-Canel (57) is by far the best cards to the president on the follow. Nevertheless, it can not be excluded that another contender comes to the fore.
Mariela Castro, director of the National Center for Sexual Education (CENESEX), will see themselves in each case not as a successor. “The Cuban men and women are candidates”, she asked at a press conference. Castro said that she never proposed to be “such a large task.”