Title: Urging the Government of Brazil to ensure that the October 2022 elections are conducted in a free, fair, credible, transparent, and peaceful manner that enables all citizens of Brazil to exercise the right to vote.
Policy area: International Affairs

Summary:
This resolution urges the Brazilian government to ensure that the October 2022 elections are conducted in a free, fair, credible, transparent, and peaceful manner that enables all citizens of Brazil to exercise the right to vote.
The resolution call for the U.S. government to immediately recognize the outcome of the election in Brazil, if that election is determined by international observers and organizations to have been free and fair.

[Congressional Bills 117th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H. Res. 1335 Introduced in House (IH)]

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117th CONGRESS
  2d Session
H. RES. 1335

    Urging the Government of Brazil to ensure that the October 2022 
  elections are conducted in a free, fair, credible, transparent, and 
  peaceful manner that enables all citizens of Brazil to exercise the 
                             right to vote.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           September 9, 2022

   Ms. Jacobs of California (for herself, Ms. Wild, Mr. Raskin, Mr. 
     Grijalva, and Mr. Johnson of Georgia) submitted the following 
   resolution; which was referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs

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                               RESOLUTION


 
    Urging the Government of Brazil to ensure that the October 2022 
  elections are conducted in a free, fair, credible, transparent, and 
  peaceful manner that enables all citizens of Brazil to exercise the 
                             right to vote.

Whereas, in 1822, the United States was the first country to recognize Brazil as 
        an independent country;
Whereas Brazil, as the fifth-largest country in the world, has the fourth-
        largest democracy and the seventh-largest economy;
Whereas the protection of the Brazilian Amazon is of importance to Brazil, the 
        United States, and like-minded nations around the world;
Whereas actions or comments that seek to question or undermine Brazil's 
        democratic and electoral institutions must be resolutely rejected by the 
        United States and Brazil;
Whereas the United States and Brazil are 2 of the largest democracies and 
        economies in the Western Hemisphere; and
Whereas the United States and Brazil have a partnership that is rooted in a 
        shared commitment to democracy and prosperity and the promotion of 
        international peace, security, and respect for human rights: Now, 
        therefore, be it
    Resolved, That the House of Representatives--
            (1) urges the Government of Brazil to ensure that the 
        October 2022 elections are conducted in a free, fair, credible, 
        transparent, and peaceful manner that enables all citizens of 
        Brazil to exercise the right to vote; and
            (2) calls for the United States Government--
                    (A) to continue to speak out against efforts to 
                undermine the electoral process in Brazil and to hold 
                the Government of Brazil accountable for respecting the 
                rights of the citizens of Brazil in accordance with 
                international obligations and the Constitution of the 
                Federative Republic of Brazil; and
                    (B) to immediately recognize the outcome of the 
                election in Brazil, if such election is determined by 
                international observers and organizations to have been 
                free and fair, and to clarify that the United States--
                            (i) will review and reconsider its 
                        relationship with any government that comes to 
                        power in Brazil through undemocratic means, 
                        including a military coup; and
                            (ii) will ensure United States security 
                        assistance and other forms of bilateral United 
                        States assistance to Brazil remains compliant 
                        with relevant United States statutes related to 
                        the peaceful and democratic transition of 
                        power, including longstanding restrictions on 
                        the provision of security assistance in the 
                        event of a military coup, and that United 
                        States assistance further remains consistent 
                        with the Brazilian Government's and peoples' 
                        historic commitment to prioritizing principles 
                        of democracy and human rights.
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