- Cuba on Wednesday launched the daylong process of selecting Raul Castro's successor as president of Cuba, the centerpiece of an effort to ensure that the country's single-party system outlasts the aging revolutionaries who created it.
State media said the government would announce Castro's replacement on Thursday, installing someone from outside the Castro family in the country's highest government office for the first time in nearly six decades.
Castro entered the National Assembly just after 9 a.m. accompanied by a broadly smiling Vice President Miguel Diaz-Canel, the man expected to succeed him.
The 605 assembly members were sworn in, then voted for the president and vice president of the legislative body itself. The president and vice president of Cuba and other national leaders will be voted on later in the day.
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