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Not funny – Brazilian clown receives more votes for congress than other candidates
Resolvi adaptar para um inglês de nível básico um texto da BBC sobre a eleição de Tiririca. O texto original pode ser lido seguindo este link: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-11465127
Not funny – Brazilian clown receives more votes for congress than other candidates
Tiririca – his real name is Francisco Oliveira Silva -, was elected federal deputy for Sao Paulo. He received more than 1.3 million votes. Tiririca – “grumpy” in English – had this slogan: “Vote for Tiririca, the situation can’t get worse.”
Tiririca was elected in first place, with 1,353,355 votes. The second candidate in number of votes, Antony Garotinho, had a little more than 694,000 votes. Other celebrities that will go to Brasilia are: ex-footballer Romario; and Bebeto, his team-mate in the 1994 World-Cup.
Tiririca had humorous adverts on YouTube: “What does a federal deputy do? I don’t know. But vote for me and I will discover” was one of his messages.
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