Psychologist Susely Morfa is promoted to first secretary of the Communist Party in Matanzas

The communist leader Susely Morfa was promoted to first secretary of the Communist Party in Matanzas.

Morfa replacesLiván Izquierdo Alonso, who was appointed in June 2019 and he did not even reach three years in office.

From now on, Izquierdo will assume "new responsibilities in the ranks of the Party," according to the brief information from the provincial government of Matanzas on its Facebook wall.

The new change was announced at the Party's balance assembly in Matanzas, which was chaired by the ruler Miguel Díaz-Canel.

After the promotion was announced, the leader expressed on her Twitter account that the best way to thank the messages of encouragement and trust she has received is to serve the people "with modesty and consecration."

"Rest assured that you will always find me on the side of duty and the Revolution," he added.

Susely, former first secretary of the Communist Youth and member of the Council of State, has had a meteoric career since in 2015, at the Summit of the Americas in Panama, the journalist fromUnivisionMario Vallejo who had paid for his passage to that country with his salary, which was equivalent to about 20 dollars a month.

Since with that figure it was impossible to afford a plane ticket, the Psychology graduate began to be called by Cubans as "the millionaire psychologist."

Thanks to that media debut in which he was seen shouting and gesticulating in a decomposed manner, in less than a yearMorfa went on to lead the Young Communist League until 2020.

During these years he has not stopped receiving criticism and generating controversy with his approaches.

Last year he posed in aphotograph with a mural behind him where the phrase was read: "The scholarship is not a right university, but an opportunity offered by the revolutionary Government", which many considered a violation of the right to education in Cuba, which the regime boasts of guaranteeing to children and young people.