May 26 (UPI) -- The opposition platform Consejo para la Transición Democrática en Cuba, known as CTDC, launched a campaign seeking a constitutional reform to end the "civil and political" monopoly of the Communist Party of Cuba.
The organization announced Monday that it aims to amend Article 5 of Cuba's Constitution, which defines the Communist Party as the "superior leading force of society and the state."
In a statement, the group said the current model "perpetuates physical and symbolic violence over an entire nation" and blamed it for the "successive economic and social crises" affecting the island, according to the independent news outlet Diario de Cuba.
Cuba's opposition is a deeply fragmented, peaceful and heavily persecuted movement that operates clandestinely, under semi-confinement or from exile because of the Communist Party government's criminalization of dissent.
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