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Mon 10 Oct 2008Carnival of Brazil's local elections sets the scene for presidential race
LETTER FROM BRAZIL:WHEN IT comes to democracy, few places in the world can match Brazil for exotic weirdness. Among the more than 350,000 candidates for yesterday's local elections were such familiar names as Barak Obama, Bin Laden, DJ Saddam, Bill Clinton and Jorge Bushi, writes Tom Hennigan
One candidate goes by the name King of the Cuckolds while a stripper turned politician ran as Deborah Soft, recommending that electors "vote with pleasure". In Rio de Janeiro Santa Claus was battling it out for a seat on the city council with Tarzan and US 1960s radical Jerry Rubin.
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