Brazil candidate 'handed out cocaine with election leaflets'

 

Carme Cristina Lima, 32, was running for councillor of Itacoatiara, in Brazil's northern state of Amazonas.

Police became suspicious when they saw a crowd allegedly gathering around Ms Lima's car on the morning of election day on Sunday.

Officers searched her car and allegedly found hundreds of packets of cocaine attached to the candidate's leaflets with instructions on how to vote for her.  "The candidate and another man also fled by car but officers caught up with them. "According to locals, she had been distributing the drugs since early in the morning, on condition that people vote for her."

Ms Lima was arrested for electoral corruption and drug dealing. 

Well we certainly know where this candidate stands on drugs.  I wonder how her drug budget compared to her budget for signs?  This could have been an expensive election campaign. Also a jail term is going to make it difficult to serve on council.

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