Tag: Tiririca

• Monday, December 11th 2017 - 19:29 UTC

  Brazilian lawmaker and professional clown won't run for reelection: he feels ashamed of his colleagues

  

  A professional clown in Brazil who ran for congress and won by a huge margin says he will not stand again in 2018. Francisco Everardo Oliveira Silva, better known as Tiririca, is coming to the end of his second term in the Chamber of Deputies.

• Wednesday, October 6th 2010 - 02:20 UTC

  Brazil’s most voted federal Deputy could be barred from Congress for illiteracy

  

  The candidate who won the most votes in Brazil’s Sunday general elections, Tiririca the clown, will have to show electoral authorities that he can read and write to avoid his electoral victory being annulled, an elections official said.