Massive Lottery Win in Brazil’s Congress Sets Capital City Abuzz

Rodrigo Maia, Brazil’s house speaker, top center, and other lawmakers attend a session in the lower housePhotographer: Andre Coelho/Bloomberg

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By Simone Iglesias

September 19, 2019 at 1:47 PM UTC

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A multi-million dollar lottery haul by members of Brazil’s left-wing Workers’ Party has become the talk of the town in the capital city of Brasilia.

Forty-nine lower house advisors to that party, which is known as the PT and counts former President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva as its best-known member, will split a prize of 120 million reais ($29 million). Those aides became aware of their good fortune in the middle of a floor vote in the Chamber of Deputies late on Wednesday, and it didn’t take long before lively banter erupted.