The Texas Senate has given green light in the early hours of this Saturday to the new electoral map. In the absence of the definitive firm of Republican governor Greg Abbott, which seems to soon arrive, the party leading to Donald Trump is expected to benefit from the next elections.
The initiative is intended to guarantee up to five more seats to the Republicans of the House of Representatives of the US Congress. Something that was rejected by the Democratic bench.
These representatives traveled to Chicago to try to prevent, under the threat of arrest, which The vote will reach the necessary quorum of presentbut they have been unable to interrupt the final vote of this Saturday in the upper house of the State Congress.
The initiative has been approved shortly after midnight amid citizen protests against the vote, which has been paid by 11 votes in favor of 11 against. The opposition denounces that this redistribution occurs at the expense of voters of minorities such as the black and Latin communities, whose voice will be silenced when the time comes to deposit the ballot.
Democratic majority states have promised to reconfigure their own electoral maps, as is the case of California, which will submit the issue to referendum on November 4. The president of the United States, Donald Trump, does not want the new redistribution to stay in Texas and has urged his governors in Missuri, Indiana and Ohio to do the same.
