1. Anthony Garotinho legally adopted his stage name "Garotinho", originally a nickname he took while working as a radio sports broadcaster.
15 Facts About Anthony Garotinho
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Anthony Garotinho is one of the best known Brazilian evangelical politicians.
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Anthony Garotinho is married to Rosinha Matheus and has nine children, of whom five are adopted.
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Anthony Garotinho entered electoral politics in 1982, presenting himself as candidate for a councilman seat in the same city on the Workers' Party ticket, failing to be elected because the party's list of candidates didn't achieve the necessary threshold of ballots to have a representation in the Municipal Chamber.
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Anthony Garotinho won high approval ratings, but his time in office was marked by serious corruption allegations.
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Early during his gubernatorial term, Anthony Garotinho made a try at striking a progressive note on his public security policies, based on a think-tank of social researchers - who ghost-wrote Anthony Garotinho's electoral public security programme - led by the university professor of Anthropology and Political Science Luis Eduardo Soares, who was made assistant secretary of public security.
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However, Anthony Garotinho eventually dismissed Soares in March 2000, which was seen as a serious setback for upholding human rights, according to Human Rights Watch.
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Anthony Garotinho insisted that Soares' removal was legitimate, but the circumstances suggested that he was removed due to pressure from the Rio police, with whose corrupt and violent elements Soares had been coming increasingly into conflict.
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Anthony Garotinho moved to the Brazilian Socialist Party due to problems with the PDT leader, Leonel Brizola, and was the party's presidential candidate at the October 2002 presidential elections.
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Anthony Garotinho backed Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva in the second round.
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Anthony Garotinho helped his wife Rosinha Matheus re-election campaign for governor of the state of Rio de Janeiro.
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Anthony Garotinho later stopped his hunger strike, leaving charges unanswered- and his presidential candidacy turned down.
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Many satirists declared that they supported Anthony Garotinho going on with the strike "to the very end".
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In June 2014, Anthony Garotinho announced his support for incumbent President Dilma Rousseff in the 2014 Brazilian presidential election.
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Anthony Garotinho ran for Governor of Rio de Janeiro in the 2014 state elections, receiving 1.576.511 votes, finishing in third place, after Luiz Fernando Pezao and Marcelo Crivella, who disputed the run-off.