On Wednesday, a bill aimed at guaranteeing access to the vote for minorities widely defended by Joe Biden was presented to the United States Senate.
Two days before, when Martin Luther King Jr. Day was held, a public holiday in the United States, many personalities wanted to speak out in favor of this electoral reform, like Stevie Wonder.
“A senator who does not support the right to vote in the United States cannot say that he supports the Constitution.
If our rights matter to you and you support them, get to work,” the music icon said in a video message posted to his YouTube channel.
Words that had no effect on the outcome of the ballot, blocked by the Republican opposition, and this in particular thanks to the support of two elected Democrats who voted against their camp.
A deleterious principle
Indeed, the text of the law remains in suspense thanks to the so-called
filibuster
rule
which allows the opposition to block the debates as long as a majority of 3/5ths – that is 60 senators out of 100 – does not stand out.
However, Joe Biden had the ambition to thwart this principle in order to push the electoral reform in force to the simple majority.
But Democratic Senators Joe Manchin (West Virginia) and Kyrsten Sinema (Arizona) sided against this upheaval in Senate rules.
For Stevie Wonder, it is quite simply a democratic aberration and leads him to think that elected officials do not have the protection of citizens in their sights.
"Parliamentary filibuster doesn't work in a democracy," he added.
Originally, the principle of
filibuster
was supposed to push the elected representatives of the two camps to reach a compromise by allowing the minority party to postpone the vote on a law.
But in practice, the frequent recourse to the
filibuster
within an American Senate which is more divided than ever causes a democratic stalemate and makes it extremely difficult to implement major reforms in the United States.
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