A Mexican politician was caught plagiarizing lines from the Netflix political drama “House of Cards.”

Miguel Angel Covarrubias Cervantes, the former mayor of a small town in Tlaxcala, posted a video to Facebook where he took a speech by show protagonist Frank Underwood, played by Kevin Spacey, and turned it into his own monologue — without giving the show any credit, the BBC reported.

“They say that we have the government that we deserve, and I think that Mexico deserves something bigger,” Cervantes begins.

The speeches are not carbon copies: Underwood’s version says “leaders” instead of “government” in the opening line, but Cervantes mostly sticks to Underwood’s script, Quartz reported.

The “House of Cards” Twitter account posted a video of actor Michael Kelly, who plays Underwood’s chief of staff Doug Stamper, saying: “To the people of Mexico: It’s not a competition, you have no idea where people take their inspiration from. Pay attention now.”

The tweet’s caption read “Imitation is not always the best form of flattery” in Spanish.

La imitación no es siempre la mejor forma de adulación. #Tlaxcala pic.twitter.com/WeA6wilGW3 — House of Cards (@HouseofCards) June 14, 2017

Cervantes denied plagiarism, saying he was intentionally seeking the “world’s attention.”

He also told Mexican newspaper Milenio that he was making a “clear reference” to the series in his original video and intended for it to go viral all along.