Augusto Cury, psychiatrist and author of successful self-help books published in around 90 countries, is the most recent candidate for president of Brazil. He is running for Avante, a centrist party that supported José Serra against Dilma Rousseff, in 2010, Aécio Neves, again against Dilma, in 2014, Ciro Gomes, in 2018, and Lula da Silva against Jair Bolsonaro, in 2022. This year he decided to advance with his own candidate.
According to the party, the candidacy of Cury, 67, aims to strengthen “emotional balance, education and humanized management in Brazil”. “With this initiative, Avante expands the national debate and positions itself as a protagonist in the construction of a new path”, states a note from the formation founded in 1989 under the name Partido Trabalhista do Brasil, which has a senator, five federal deputies and 136 mayors.
Cury said in a brief statement that he does not love power. “I don’t love it, I don’t seek it, I don’t need it, the candidacy is not a personal project but a journey”, said the author born in Colina, 405 km north of São Paulo, and 25 million books sold in Brazil alone.
With no political experience, the psychiatrist joins Lula, from PT, current president of the Republic, Flávio Bolsonaro, from PL, current senator and son of former president Jair Bolsonaro, Romeu Zema, from Novo, who resigned from the position of governor of Minas Gerais, Ronaldo Caiado, from PSD, who left the post of governor of Goiás, Aldo Rebelo, from DC, former minister, and Renan Santos, from Missão, who resigned highlighted in demonstrations for impeachment of Dilma.
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