Unprecedented incident unfolded in Texas, by stake in US intermediate elections. State Republicans voted for the arrest of dozens of democratic MPs blocking a plan to redistribute the regions

Republican ruler Greg Abbott ordered state police officers “To identify, arrest and return to the House of Representatives of any member who has left his duty to the Texans.”

Abbott also threatened to say accusations to the absent democrats for bribery if they raise public money to cover the daily fine for a boycott of the body.

Congress’s redesigned map will create five more seats, With a clear Republican electoral stream in the House of US representatives in Washington, where Republicans have a small majority.

At least two -thirds of the state’s 150 -member state legislation in Texas must be present to proceed with the vote. The quorum became unacceptable as more than 50 democratic legislators abandoned the state.

Most Democrats fled to Illinois, where the Governor of the State J. B. Prizker said that ‘will do whatever they can to protect each of them » amid threats of arrest by Abbott.

Democrats said they plan to stay away from Texas for two weeks until the end of the Special Legislative Synod.

The Republicans of Texas are currently holding 25 of the 38 seats of the State Congress.

Hope that new maps could increase this number to 30 – all in constituencies that President Donald Trump won last November by at least 10 points.

Incorporate next year’s intermediate elections, the redistribution of the Texas regions could help In reinforcing the poor majority of Republicans in the House of Representatives of the US – the Lower House of Congress.