The ultra agenda floods Brazil with increasingly younger leaders
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Lucas Pavanato, a 28-year-old city councillor from São Paulo, gained over three million votes in the recent election, becoming the second most supported deputy in Brazil. He was previously condemned to pay 20,000 reais, or nearly 4,000 dollars, for moral damages to a woman he ridiculed in one of his YouTube videos. Pavanato had also faced judicial issues for calling trans deputy Erika Hilton "el travesti de Lula", although he later won the case.
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