Republicans vote in Texas to arrest the Democrats who have stopped dividing the circles

The Republicans voted in Texas in favor of arresting dozens of democratic lawmakers who fled the state in an attempt to prevent a plan to redraw the electoral border.

Republican ruler Greg Abbott ordered the state soldiers “to determine and arrest them and return to the House of Representatives Chamber, any member who abandoned their duty towards Texas.”

Abbott also threatened to accuse Democrats absent by bribery if they raised public funds to cover the daily fine they bear to boycott the room.

The map of Congress that has been raised will be established by five other seats in the US House of Representatives in the House of Representatives in Washington, where Republicans hold a small majority.

At least thirds of the legislative body of the state must be 150 members of Texas present to move forward. The quorum has become incapable after more than 50 Democratic legislators left the state.

Most Democrats fled to Illinois. “We are fighting for democracy, there are no longer rules,” said JB Pritzker, a democratic state, said on Tuesday.

At a press conference, Democrats from Texas and Ilinoi, as well as party leaders, spoke about the ongoing battle.

“Do not mistake this, the Democratic Party has not started this battle, but we will not roll,” said Ken Martin, head of the National Democratic Committee (DNC). “They want to fight. We will give it to them, and we will put every choice on the table.”

Democrats said they intend to stay away from Texas for two weeks until the end of a special legislative session.

On Monday was mostly symbolic, as orders apply only to Texas lines.

This step managed the sergeant of the Chamber and the state forces to arrest the absent legislators and hand them over to the Capitol Governmental Building in Austin.

They will not face any civil or criminal charges as a result of the memo.

The Democratic Legitimacy of Texas Ron Reynolds BBC News told Chicago on Monday that the threat of detention was no more than the intimidation tactic. “

The members of the Texas house bear a fine of $ 500 (377 pounds) for every day they fail to appear.

Al -Hakim Abbott warned that those who refused to return to vote might face charges.

“It will be bribery if any legislator takes money to pay or refuse to perform a law in the legislative body,” Abbott told Fox News on Monday.

“The reports are that these legislators have sought money and offered money to overcome the vote, to leave the legislative body to take a legislative law. This will be bribery.”

After the lawmakers voted to issue orders against the Democrats, the Public Safety Ministry in Texas ordered “the location of any member of the House of Representatives and the return to the House of Representatives Chamber, abandoning their duty towards Texas.”

He added that his matter will remain in effect, “until all the members of the missing Democratic Parliament are calculated and they are brought to Capitol Texas.”

The Republican legislator in Texas, Brian Harrison, criticized the Democrats on their argument that the electoral districts were re -drawing them on racism lines.

“Nonscious, sarcastic, unsafe, complete nonsense,” Harrison told BBC News.

“These Democrats need to be arrested” and that they “need to obtain all other types of penalties,” he added.

The Texas Prosecutor, Ken Pakston, a Republican, also threatened to arrest the absent Democrats.

Paxon, who is running for the US Senate, wrote that X should “use every tool at our disposal to search for those who think they are above the law.”

Republicans in Texas are currently 25 of the 38 seats in the state.

They hope that the new maps will be able to increase this number to 30 – all in the electoral districts that President Donald Trump won last November by at least 10 points.

Before the renewal elections next year, the re -division of regions in Texas can help the slim Republican Republic in the US House of Representatives – the Chamber of Lower Congress.

In the states in which they deal with the process of re -dividing the circles, such as Illinois, Nio Mexico and Nevada, Democrats have already manipulated the electoral borders to achieve party gains as the Republicans did, according to the Princeton Gerrymandering project.

But the other Democratic -controlled states – such as New York, California, Colorado and Washington – must re -divide the circles into non -party commissions, instead of the state’s legislative bodies.

Some Democratic leaders in other states have suggested that they may re -draw their legislative maps to counter the suggested losses of the seats in Texas.

New York Governor Cathy Hochol said she was exploring a constitutional amendment to raise the schedule to redraw the legislative lines in its mandate.

Countries are usually subject to the division of circles every 10 years, when the voting maps to calculate the population changes.

The latest American census in 2020 was to redraw the boycott lines in the middle of the nodes is unusual.