Tiririca records video about defeat in the elections in Ceará: 'I think I joked too much'

On October 4, Tiririca obtained 5,536 votes, an insufficient number to guarantee a place as federal deputy. This was the first time he ran in an election for Ceará. Until then, he had been elected federal deputy four times for São Paulo and was seeking a fifth term, this time for his home state.

In the video, Tiririca appears responding to an interlocutor, who asks what he thinks happened to not have been elected. The comedian, from the beginning rubbing his fingers together in a gesture that symbolizes money, engages in the following dialogue with the other person:

- My mother always spoke like that, she always does, right? He didn't die. She says that a saint at home doesn't work miracles. A house saint doesn’t perform miracles, right? This is what I learned in these elections. And the other...

- I feel you are a little nervous.

- Yes, I acquired this tic [the gesture of money in hands] during the campaign, taking to the streets, together with the people. In fact, I was well received, well treated and I acquired this tic. So, as I was saying, I think politics in Ceará is very serious. I think I played too much.

Tiririca announced the move to Ceará in 2025, after seeing his vote in São Paulo decline over consecutive terms after being elected for the first time, in 2010, with a record vote. See, election by election, how the comedian lost popularity among voters:

In 2025, he not only changed states, but also changed parties: he left the Liberal Party (PL) and went to the Social Democratic Party (PSD). Throughout the campaign, he made humorous videos, in which he often appeared in costume, but he was unable to recover the impressive votes he had in the past. With the defeat, Tiririca will be left without a mandate for the first time since 2011.

Born in Itapipoca (CE), Francisco Everardo Tiririca Oliveira Silva is 61 years old. He was successful as a comedian in the 1990s and debuted in politics in 2010, after being elected federal deputy for the State of São Paulo, affiliated with the Republic Party (PR).

That year, with the slogan "It doesn't get any worse", he was the most voted federal deputy elected in Brazil, surpassing the mark of 1.3 million votes. The expressive number caught the attention of other parties, who sought out Tiririca as a "vote puller" to increase the party's presence in the Chamber.

In 2014, Tirica was re-elected with 1.01 million votes, 336,970 less than in the 2010 elections, and was the second most voted in São Paulo. In 2018, he was elected for a third term with 453,855 votes, the fifth most voted in the state.

In 2022, Tiririca went from "puller" of votes to "puller" — with more than 71 thousand votes, he was the federal deputy with the lowest votes to be elected by São Paulo. He only managed to get a seat in the Chamber of Deputies due to the number of seats won by the party (PL).

The 2026 dispute was the first in which Tiririca ran for a position in Ceará. With the defeat, the comedian will leave the Chamber of Deputies after January 31, 2027.