Tião
Another animal politician, this time a chimpanzee called Tião, comes from Brazil. Almost thirty years after Cacareco, this cute chimp was used to point out the rising political corruption. Tião was a candidate for mayor of Rio de Janeiro and even though the authorities have annulled all the votes for Tião and never announced how many votes he actually got running with a slogan “Vote monkey – get monkey”, unofficial estimates say that he got over 400,000 votes and came in third in this race.
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