The Texas legislator sleeps in the state capitol to protest against the escort of the police while the struggle to redraw the continuous voting districts

The representative of the democratic state, Nicole Collier, spent the night in the Texas Capitol building rather than accepting a police instructor in the midst of a controversial partisan struggle on the redistribution which is part of the campaign of American president Donald Trump to maintain the national chamber of representatives with republican hands.

The Democrats abandoned the state’s legislature for two weeks to refuse a quorum in the Texas Chamber, delaying a vote on a redistribution plan established at the request of Trump.

After their return to the State, the Republican Directorate awarded agents of the application of state laws to monitor democrats in order to prevent other delays in their plan to redraw the voting districts of the American Congress to promote the Republicans before the 2026 elections.

Necklace, during his seventh two -year term representing a strong Worth, refused to accept the police instructor and stayed in the Capitol building to protest.

Necklace posted a photo of her on social networks on Tuesday sleeping on a chair with a blanket and the legend: “It was my night, hat and everything, in the #Txlege.”

CNN reported that representatives of the state of Texas Gene Wu and Vince Perez, also democrats, joined him in the solidarity overnight, bringing snacks of dried fruit, ramen and popcorn. “What matters to me is to make sure to resist and fight against and repel,” said Capitole Reuters necklace in an interview on Monday.

Texas republican legislators did not immediately respond to requests for comments.

Earlier this month, more than 50 Democrats in the Texas Chamber left the State, aimed at refusing the Republicans the number of legislators who must be present to hold a vote that would make the new borders official.

They returned to the state on Monday, saying that the delay had allowed their party to counter with a plan by the governor of California Gavin Newsom to trigger a redistribution plan in this largely democratic state designed to compensate for any republican gain in Texas.

This is part of a long history of parties restarting the voting limits in states to maximize their number of seats, a process known as Gerrymandering, a term invented in 1812 in a derisory reference to the governor then Governor of Massachusetts.

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At one point, Texas Governor Greg Abbott, a republican, said that any legislator who requested funds to pay a fine of $ 500 per day in Texas House imposed on absent legislators could violate corruption laws and called them “potential criminals”.

Newsom described his efforts as a “law on response to electoral fuel”.

The president of the Texas Chamber Dustin Burrows, a Republican, said on Monday that the Democrats who had left the state but would not be liable only to leave the rooms of the Chamber if they had to be released in the custody of a Texas Department of Public Safety agent, who would ensure that they were present in the chamber sessions in the future. He then planned the next session for Wednesday.

Several Democrats bristle the escorts but have accepted them.

“The choice of the collar representative to stay and not to sign the authorization slip is in his rights under the rules of the chamber,” said Burrows in a press release, adding that he would spend his time working on “important legislation” for Texans.

After the end of the session on Monday, necklace stood alone in the center of the room in the capital of the state of Austin, making telephone calls and making interviews while it was surrounded by a sea of empty seats.

“You know that the upper road that people talk about, you know, speaking when they go low, we’re going high? This road has collapsed. We are now on the dirt road and we will meet them on the dirt road where they are and be ready to fight,” said necklace.

“So they closed the gallery. They locked the doors, they turned off the cameras here. And I hear people shouting:” Let it go out “, because they are also tired,” said necklace on Monday evening.

“They try to silence us. And we can’t,” she said. “If we allow them to do this, what we know how to be free is. If we continue to allow them to tread the tramples … I do not know what remains for America.”

Wu, the chief of the minority and president of Texas House Democratic Caucus, said that the current districts of the Texas Congress already dilute the voting power of racial minorities in the State, and the new redistribution plan represented “the turbocharged racism”.

In an appearance on Fox News, Abbott described Wu’s accusation as “false”, saying that redistribution would create more Hispanic majority districts. He argued that it was also necessary to give Trump voters in democratic districts-majority the ability to elect Republicans.

Necklace, former president of the legislative Texas Black Caucus, said on Monday in a statement: “My community is the majority of the minority and that they expect that I defend their representation.”