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The lack of identification with the informal, religious posture, and even disrespectful of some deputies made the Brazilians ask Themselves: but who elected these people?

The answer may shock many, but the truth is that the vast majority was not elected by direct vote of its voters. Only 36 of the Brazilian federal deputies elected in 2014 got the ballot boxes needed to get one of the 513 seats in the House in the current legislature. This means that only 7% of parliamentary exceeded the minimum required votes - called electoral quotient - to ensure a space in the legislative house, the same number of the 2010 elections. And the other 477? How did they get there?

Unlike the elections for governor or president, Which works with majority of votes (majority election and wins who has the most votes in the first round, and 50% of the votes plus one if the second round), deputies and councilors are elected by the proportional system . The so-called electoral quotient defines the game: the sum of the members of vacancies divided by the number of valid votes during an election. It is that magic number that defines who passes by direct popular riddle indeed. And there are the such 36. Eduardo Cunha, Chico Alencar, Jair Bolsonaro, Tiririca and Celso Russomanno, for example, are part of this select group.

The remaining 477 beneficiaries end up entering the number that exceeds this ratio and that can be distributed to other parliamentary party of the candidates. The Legend of votes, for example, fall into this account of the electoral quotient. That is why the subtitles bet on so-called "vote pullers": the most famous names that attract attention of voters. The clown Tiririca, for example, elected in 2010 for the first time with the slogan "Vote for Tiririca, because things can not get worse than They already are," it is the best example. The harmless message assured him more than a million votes in 2014 when he ran for PR by St. Paul, number well above the required ratio in proportion to the size of your party and the vacancies available for the Paulistas MPs in the House. With him were elected Captain Augustus, who had only 46,900 votes and Michael Lombardi (32,000), both of PR.