Overview

• Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel is expected to be chosen for another five-year term by assembly lawmakers this week.
• Díaz-Canel's first term was marked by the coronavirus pandemic, economic crisis, and disasters.
• He will need to focus on overhauling Cuba's economic system in his second term.
• The economic backdrop to the election is grim, with shortages of fuel, electricity, food, medicine, and foreign currency worsening.
• Diaz-Canel heads the Communist Party, to which all 470-members of the legislature elected by Cubans last month either belong or are sympathetic to.