HAVANA, March 22 (Reuters) - Like a growing number of Cubans, 77-year-old Havana resident Humberto Avila says he will likely sit out Sunday's legislative elections.
The retired university professor says he's done the math - 470 candidates, 470 open seats - and sees no point in voting.
Abstention has spiked in recent elections, rising to a four-decade high of 31% of eligible voters in municipal elections in November.
"This vote is for the Revolution ... and to continue to defend our socialist system," Diaz-Canel told textile workers in Santa Clara.
Rey Lazaro Blanco, a 19-year old geography student at the University of Havana, told Reuters he will vote on Sunday.