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Democrats flee Texas to block controversial law

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Determined to prevent a quorum and the passage in the Texan Parliament of a law restricting the right to vote, dozens of elected officials flew to Washington.

It is the amazement of the Republicans in Austin, the Texas capital. The Democrats have done it again. On May 31, on the last day of the normal legislative session, in the midst of the vote on this same electoral law that they had succeeded in pushing back to the last hours of the parliamentary session, they had all already left the chamber stealthily before leaving. disperse to Austin. The maneuver had killed the law and allowed them to be received in Washington by US Vice President Kamala Harris, as the champions of the right to vote.

Black anger of the governor of Texas, Greg Abbott, who had replied by calling a special session. The latter began last Thursday and was to last 26 days. In the middle of the primary for his re-election, Greg Abbott wishes at all costs to please the grassroots…

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