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Reached the pool only through Portuguese and Spanish feeds. The hints recovered fraud allegations and 49 war-veteran deputies. Meduza's English analysis of turnout and ballot-stuffing is in the corpus but was NOT offered as a hint, because the hint mechanism is lexical too and cannot bridge English to Portuguese. Research must fetch it deliberately.", "outcome": "ran", "outcome_reason": "highest total in the pool (12) and the only candidate scoring 3 on all four ranked criteria. 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