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fraternal, humanitarian institutions; of allthose organizations whether they are local,national or international.All of them should have as commoncharacteristics:1. They should be autonomous from anystructure of the State, in theirfoundation, in their procedures, intheir financing, in their organizationand actions; they should really benon-governmental.2. They should follow pacific andproactive methods and ends.3. They should be a free andparticipative public space. This publicspace also allows the groups of civilsociety to debate, to pressure,denounce or cooperate with the Stateand with the structures of the market,as well as to create states of opinionand pacific and democratic pressure.The debate of the civic and politicalmatters is also a part of the very civilsociety as if it were its atmosphere orhabitat. This civic fabric, that networkof initiatives, would give theFatherland the third leg or the thirdpillar back; the third column of thenational home which is the civilsociety and it would reach suchprominence and levels ofparticipation that it would assume theprimacy in the public administrationand in the progress and the holisticdevelopment of the nation, withoutthe exclusion of the Market or theState.The civil society: the new name fordemocracyThe way to interrelate the three legs ofthe stool of the nation will define thecharacter, the efficiency and thedurability of democracy in Cuba. Theinterdependence and mutual control ofthe three powers of the State, which is abasic and a foundational principle and anaccepted and acceptable patrimony ofthe modern States, should also beimplemented in the relations between theState, the Market and the Civil Society.The democracy with the absolute primacy ofthe market causes inequalities, injusticesand exclusions.The democracy of the Marxist-Leninistsocialism causes the same and itestablishes a dictatorship of one class overanother.The democracy with the primacy of civilsociety would be a way to organize thesociety as:-A school of empowerment, leadership,inclusion and self-management.-A fabric of solidarity and a subsidiaryprinciple.-A network of control and pressure over theMarket and the State.-It generates creativity, richness and acommunitarian patrimony, created anddistributed as fairly as possible.Civil Society: Catalyst of Governabilityand GovernanceWhat gives true consistency to a nation isnot only the capacity of its politicalgovernment, that is, its governability. It’salso and above all, the capacity of itscitizens to organize themselves in theframework of the civil society, and this isknown as governance.Some countries change their primeministers and cabinets with incrediblefrequency. These ministers and cabinetsundergo crisis and lack of credibility fromtheir parliaments; however, these arecountries which don’t lose their socialstability or their economic growth or theirinternational role and their governabilityturns itself sustainable because of theresponsible exercise of governance.The strongest the role of the civil society is,the more reduced and efficient theregulating role of the political power is, andthis political power should contribute thelegal framework and the guarantee of thesocial security in a subsidiary way.Differences between the power vacuum andthe civil society vacuum.Ediciones ConvivenciaPinar del Río. 201282