A VENEZUELAN POLITICIAN who is trying to raise money for his parliamentary election campaign has certainly taken a novel approach.
Gustavo Rojas, an opposition candidate for a National Assembly position, is setting up a prize draw in which the winner will receive cosmetic surgery.
Rojas told Reuters:
Some people raffle TVs and we decided to offer this. It’s an interesting prize and there’s a lot of interest… The raffle is a financing mechanism, nothing else. It’s the doctor who will do the operation, not me.
He dismissed suggestions that the prize was inappropriate or offensive, saying:
When someone raffles a TV, some people think it’s a good TV but others don’t like it. It’s the same. I’m not showing disrespect to anyone.
Cosmetic surgery is widespread in Venezuela.
To embed this post, copy the code below on your site
have your say