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The Central Bank joins the Council of Ministers in Cuba's government reorganisation
The Official Gazette published updated versions of Law 134 and Decree 127: the minister-president of the Central Bank becomes a member of the Council of Ministers, and state-funded entities will be able to contract services from their own employees.
The Official Gazette published the updated and consolidated version of Law 134, on the Organisation and Functioning of the Council of Ministers, in its special edition number 23 of 2026. It is not a new law but an annotated reissue incorporating the changes ordered by Law 186, on the Organisation of the Central State Administration, according to CiberCuba.
The substantive change affects the body's composition: the text now includes the minister-president of the Central Bank of Cuba as a member of the Council of Ministers, raising that official to ministerial rank within the country's highest executive body.
The reissue also narrows which posts a deputy prime minister may hold at the same time, ruling out the presidency of one of the Central Administration's institutes, and changes the resignation procedure: the prime minister must now consult the Council of Ministers before forwarding the document to the president of the republic, who decides without further prior consultation.
Law 186, which prompted the update, was approved on July 30, published on November 2 and takes effect on November 9. It cut the bodies of the Central State Administration from 27 to 21 and set a deadline of 30 working days to publish the consolidated version of Law 134, which was met early.
The same step reached Decree 127, on Budgeted Institutions, whose revised version appeared on November 4 in special edition number 22 of the Gazette. It incorporates the changes approved on July 24, among them the power of managers to sign economic agreements with employees of their own institution to carry out professional services, building maintenance work and similar activities, according to Periódico Cubano.
Those powers do not include deciding whether the entities exist: the Council of Ministers keeps the exclusive authority to create, merge, relocate, transform or wind them up. The scheme distinguishes between units wholly dependent on the budget and "special treatment" entities, which cover part or all of their costs with their own income. According to Finance and Prices Ministry figures, the sector comprises some 2,443 units, including hospitals, schools and administrative bodies, and accounts for more than 50% of the active state workforce.
Sources: CiberCuba · Periódico Cubano
Data updated: 2026-11-05T16:15:00.000Z