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Oscar Lopez in Mexico City

Alarm at Mexico bill allowing elections to be annulled for ‘foreign interference’

A woman speaks into a microphone with large Mexican flag in the background.
Claudia Sheinbaum speaks at the National Palace in Mexico City on Friday. Photograph: Yuri Cortéz/AFP/Getty Images

Amid fierce criticism from opposition groups, Mexico’s senate has passed ‌a constitutional amendment to include “foreign interference” as grounds to annul election results in the country.

The bill, which was presented by the country’s president, Claudia Sheinbaum, defines foreign interference as “illicit financing, propaganda, the systematic ⁠dissemination of misinformation, digital manipulation, and ⁠the intervention of foreign governments ⁠or agencies”.

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