Condemning Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador's statements of political interference in United States elections.

Subjects: International Affairs


<html><body><pre>[Congressional Bills 118th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H. Res. 329 Introduced in House (IH)]

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118th CONGRESS
  1st Session
H. RES. 329

 Condemning Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador's statements 
         of political interference in United States elections.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             April 26, 2023

Mr. Crenshaw submitted the following resolution; which was referred to 
                    the Committee on Foreign Affairs

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                               RESOLUTION


 
 Condemning Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador's statements 
         of political interference in United States elections.

Whereas foreign interference in another nation's elections is a violation of law 
        and longstanding international customs, including the United Nation's 
        Declaration on Principles of International Law concerning Friendly 
        Relations and Cooperation among States in accordance with the Charter of 
        the United Nations (1970);
Whereas, according to article 3, chapter II of the Charter of the Organization 
        of American States, in which both the United States and the Government 
        of Mexico are members, ``Every State has the right to choose, without 
        external interference, its political, economic, and social system and to 
        organize itself in the way best suited to it, and has the duty to 
        abstain from intervening in the affairs of another State. Subject to the 
        foregoing, the American States shall cooperate fully among themselves, 
        independently of the nature of their political, economic, and social 
        systems'';
Whereas, on March 9, 2023, President Lopez Obrador stated that his government 
        would ``start an information campaign for Mexicans who live and work in 
        the United States . . . and if they do not change their attitude and 
        think that they are going to use Mexico for their propaganda, electoral, 
        and political purposes, we are going to call for them not to vote for 
        that party, because it is interventionist, inhumane, hypocritical, and 
        corrupt'';
Whereas, on March 9, 2023, the Associated Press reported that President Lopez 
        Obrador ``threatened to start a campaign in the United States asking 
        Mexicans and Hispanics who live there not to vote for Republicans'';
Whereas, on March 9, 2023, the Los Angeles Times reported that President Lopez 
        Obrador ``threatened to encourage U.S. Latino voters to oppose the 
        GOP'';
Whereas, on March 10, 2023, the Washington Post reported that President Lopez 
        Obrador said that ``he would ask Americans of Mexican and Hispanic 
        origin not to vote for Republicans'';
Whereas, on March 10, 2023, Fox News reported that President Lopez Obrador 
        ``threatened to launch an `information campaign' in the U.S. against 
        Republicans, telling Mexicans and Hispanics not to vote for them unless 
        U.S. lawmakers change their treatment of Mexico--an apparent threat of 
        election interference by the head of state in response to U.S. calls for 
        action against cartels smuggling fentanyl across the border''; and
Whereas, in July 2022, President Lopez Obrador attacked the Governor of Texas, 
        Greg Abbott, and expressed the intent to interfere in United States 
        elections, stating, ``[W]e're going to ask our countrymen there that 
        they don't vote for that candidate or party'': Now, therefore, be it
    Resolved, That the House of Representatives--
            (1) calls on Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador 
        to fully and unequivocally retract his statement made on March 
        9, 2023;
            (2) calls on Mexican President Lopez Obrador to commit to 
        noninterference in any election in the United States;
            (3) calls on Mexican President Lopez Obrador to take action 
        to ensure that no ministry or instrumentality acting on behalf 
        of the Mexican Government takes any action to interfere with 
        any election within the United States;
            (4) calls on the Department of State to monitor the Mexican 
        Government's activities that may interfere in Federal, State, 
        or local elections in the United States; and
            (5) calls on President Joseph R. Biden, Jr., to strongly 
        denounce, condemn, and use the tools of government to protect 
        against all foreign interference.
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