Cuba's Raul Castro to Step Down After Next Term
That's in five years
Cuban leader Raúl Castro announced on Sunday he would step down from power after his second term as president ends in 2018.
Castro made the announcement in a nationally broadcast speech shortly after the Cuban National Assembly elected him to a second five-year term in the opening session of the new parliament.
In a surprise move, the new parliament named a rising young star as his first vice president, Miguel Diaz-Canel, 52, a member of the political bureau who rose through the party ranks in the provinces to become the most visible possible successor to Castro. Diaz-Canel would succeed Castro if he cannot serve his full term.
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So, does Raul leave office before or after Obama?
Cuban National Assembly elected him to a second five-year term in the opening session of the new parliament.
good riddance