After fleeing the state to avoid providing the quorum required for the consideration of a law on electoral redistricting, the Democratic caucus of the Texas House of Representatives returned this Monday and will attend a second special legislative session convened by Republican Governor Greg Abbott.
The decision comes after the opposition followed the legal advice they had been given; that is, if they continued with their act of rebellion and blockade of democracy initiated on August 3, they would be arrested and lose their seats.
The rebels linked their return to a promise by California Governor Gavin Newsom to launch a counteroffensive of electoral redistricting in California designed to neutralize the gains that the new electoral map in Texas would give Republicans, who could win up to five seats in the United States Congress.
There will be a second special session where the electoral law will be approved.
Abbott had called a second special session immediately after the close of the first last Friday. This second session will include the same agenda items that were to be addressed in the first, including redistricting and legislation to guarantee and improve safety in youth camps.
"There will be no respite for the negligent Democrats who fled the state and abandoned their duty to the people who elected them. I will continue to call special session after special session until we manage to pass this Texas First agenda," Abbott said in a press release last week.
