Julio César Guanche country” as an absolute cause of the inability to inherit. The Executive Committee of the Council of Ministers required from 2010 on a mandatory basis “all travellers, foreigners and Cubans residing abroad [who nevertheless retain their Cuban citizenship], in order to enter the country, having a policy of travel insurance, with medical expense coverage, issued by recognised insurance entities in Cuba” (Executive Committee of the Council of Ministers). In these cases, “the justificatory basis is the non-recognition of migrant Cubans as members of national belonging”, what a commentator has associated — in a political, not a technical sense— with statelessness (Correa Álvarez). In another sense, the Cuban Civil Code recognises statelessness, for foreign cases: it regulates that the civil capacity of people without citizenship residing in Cuba (it does not require permanent residence), is governed by current Cuban legislation (Article 12.2). 6.3. Dual citizenship (Constitution, Article 32) Multiple-citizenship is not allowed, but the right to change citizenship is allowed. The practical impossibility of losing citizenship has been the object of an interpretation that ensures that “two citizenships” are recognised, but not “double citizenship” (Prieto Valdés 2013b, p.15). This means that, when recognising “two” citizenships, the existence of a foreign one is accepted, without losing Cuban citizenship. In practice, Cuban authorities do not accept that a Cuban within the country has another passport. A recent issue that activated this was the granting of Spanish citizenship by naturalisation to Cubans residing in Cuba who fulfilled the conditions (By the Spanish Law 52/2007, of December 28th, “Law of Historical Memory”). They obtained, within Cuba, Spanish citizenship, while continuing to maintain their Cuban citizenship. Explicit attempts have been reported by some of the “double” citizens, to renounce to the Cuban one, but, as has been written above, there is no procedure for it (See also Piorno Garcell, Cutie Mustelier 2015). The only transparent rule on the subject, and that is obeyed in practice, is not of a state nature, but partisan. The internal regulations of the Communist Party of Cuba (CCP), which according to the Constitution “is the leading force of society and of the State” (Article 5), establishes that only “(e)xceptionally will Cuban citizens who also have another citizenship be admitted into the party” (PCC). Consequently, those who acquired Spanish citizenship, if they were militants of the PCC, lost that condition, and maintained Cuban citizenship. 7. Conclusions In this text I have used as a framework the debate between liberal and republican conceptions of citizenship. I have committed myself to the republican argument, which understands citizenship as rights status, an active political practice and an egalitarian ideal. In this, the republican thesis has an expanded conception of citizenship that does not limit it to the passive enjoyment of rights but also to the creation of political identities through participation. In its logic, the dispute over access to citizenship as a rights-bearing status is linked to the vocation of active participation, but also to the practice of politics as an egalitarian ideal, RSCAS/GLOBALCIT-CR 2020/3 - © 2020 Author(s) 25