Democrats return to Texas and map change can be voted

Since early August, the State Parliament has been the scene of a distance confrontation between Republican deputies and Democrats. The conservative government seeks to redesign the 38 electoral districts of this southern state, the second most populous in the country and under republican control.

Driven by Trump, deputies want to redesign the map so that the Democratic vote is diluted, a technique called “Gerrymandering”, and thus increases its contingent of 25 legislators in the Chamber of Representatives in Washington.

More than 50 Democrats had paralyzed legislative work by leaving the state, in an exile that spread them across the country and occupied the national headlines, while seeking attention to this initiative, cool but unusual in the present times.

“When Republicans tried to silence minority voters through a racist district manipulation, Texas Chamber Democrats responded to the call,” said the Democratic Caucus of the Texas Chamber in a statement about the return of deputies.

“After mobilizing Americans to join this existential battle for democracy, we return to Texas in our terms. (…) The fight continues,” they said.

This electoral movement in Texas triggered a battle of district redistribution across the country, with republican governors in several other states studying how to create new maps in an attempt to protect the narrow majority of his party in the House of Congress.