Homero Acosta Álvarez

Lawyer, university professor and Cuban politician. Vice President of the Cuban Society of Constitutional and Administrative Law of the National Union of Cuban Jurists. Elected Secretary of the National Assembly of People's Power (ANPP) and of the Council of State of the Republic of Cuba in the extraordinary session of the IX Legislature of the National Assembly of People's Power (ANPP) held on October 10, 2019, a position he will hold until 2023.

He was born in the municipality of Nueva Paz, province of Mayabeque.

He completed his primary education in his native town. He maintained a distinguished attitude during his pioneer stage, in which he became collective leader at the school level. He took Secondary and Upper Secondary education at the Lenin Vocational School, where he successfully completed his activities.

In 1982 he entered the Faculty of Law at the University of Havana and was part of the FEU Secretariat at the Faculty level. He distinguished himself in sports and cultural activities and in Student Work Brigades. He was recognized as a teaching assistant from the second year of the program. He joined the UJC ranks in 1985. He graduated in 1987 as a Bachelor of Laws.

He graduated with a Master's degree in Public Law from the University of Valencia, Spain, and was an Assistant Associate Professor of Constitutional Law at the Faculty of Law at the University of Havana. He has served as Vice President of the Cuban Society of Constitutional and Administrative Law of the National Union of Cuban Jurists.

In 1987 he began his professional career in the Revolutionary Armed Forces through social service, joining the Military Courts, where he started at the base level as a Military Judge and later became a specialist in the Military Courts Directorate.

In 1996 he was promoted to Legal Advisor to the Office of the Minister of the FAR and later became an official in the Office of the Second Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba.

In 2001 he was appointed an official in the Internal Affairs Office of the Party's Central Committee, responsible for attending to the Party's top leadership bodies, until 2004 when he was promoted to First Vice-Chief of the office of the Second Secretary of the Central Committee of the Party.

On February 28, 2009 he was elected Deputy to the National Assembly of People's Power and on March 2 provisionally as Secretary of the Council of State, an election ratified in July of that year by the National Assembly of People's Power and in February 2013 and February 2018 he was ratified in the position.

He was appointed by the Political Bureau in 2013 as a member of the Working Group in charge of studies for constitutional reform and in June 2018 as a member of the National Assembly Commission drafting the constitutional project.

In October 2019 he was elected as Secretary of the National Assembly of People's Power and of the Council of State.

He was a Delegate to the VI and VII Party Congresses and invited to the First National Conference. He was elected member of the Central Committee of the Party at the last Congress.

For his work results he has received various decorations and commendations, among them: Commemorative Medal "50th and 60th Anniversary of the FAR", "Fighter for Production and Defense", Distinction "Outstanding in Production and Defense", "Distinguished Services of the FAR" and X, XV, XX Years of Service in the FAR.