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Tiririca the television clown was elected to congress in October but kept from office by the court until he passed the literacy requirement for public office.
Now a Sao Paulo judge says he has passed a basic literacy test.
Francisco Oliveira Silva, 45, aka Tiririca or Grumpy, won more votes than any other candidate for congress, some 1.3 million votes campaigning with slogans such as: "It can't get any worse."
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