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Ashamed Brazilian clown to leave Congress in disgust at colleagues
Tiririca lambasts fellow congressmen and women for widespread graft and laziness in speech ending seven-year political career
Associated Press in Rio de Janeiro
Friday 8 December 2017 05.41 EST
A clown who has twice been elected to Brazil’s Congress under the slogan “It can’t get any worse” has said he is too embarrassed by his fellowpoliticians to run again.
Francisco Everardo Oliveira Silva, known as Tiririca, this week has said he is ashamed of his colleagues – more than half of whom are reportedly under investigation for corruption – and will not run again in 2018.
As a member of the Chamber of Deputies, Tiririca had continued working in a circus on weekends and he said he was returning to clowning full-time.
“I am embarrassed,” said Tiririca, which translates as Grumpy, in an eight-minute rant to a nearly empty session – his first address to Brazil’s lower house in his seven years in office.
More:
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/dec/08/brazil-clown-tiririca-grumpy-to-leave-congress-ashamed-embarrassed
