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Brazil's elected clown faces literacy test
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After a landslide victory in the Brazilian Congress, professional clown Francisco Everardo Silva has been forced to prove he can read and write before taking up his position.
On Thursday, the 45-year-old clown, better known as "Tiririca", took a closed-door test in Sao Paulo's regional electoral court to attest to his literacy, one of the requirements for serving as a lawmaker in the country.
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After a landslide victory in the Brazilian Congress, professional clown Francisco Everardo Silva has been forced to prove he can read and write before taking up his position. |
During the 10-hour-long exam, Tiririca had to read aloud two newspaper headlines and write a brief dictation of a passage from a law book. Before the end of the test, the president of the court said he would be given his congressman diploma anyway on December the 17th.
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