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"The SBT News Journal is back with the second interview in the series with the candidates for the presidency of the Republic."

"Six presidential hopefuls most highly placed in the electoral polls were invited for interviews over the course of this week."

"By order determined by a draw, the second to detail his proposals is the Avante candidate, Augusto Cury, who is already here with us in the studio."

"Also with us are the presenters Amanda Klein and Lívia Zanolini."

"Candidate, good evening."

"The interview will last 30 minutes, which start counting from now."

"You are a psychiatrist, you have enormous experience as a writer, and you have sold millions of books speaking about personal development and the control of emotions."

"But what in that experience actually prepares you to run the country?"

"A president needs to take care of public finances, negotiate with Congress, and confront crises."

"Are you prepared for the challenge?"

"First of all, it is a great honor to be interviewed by you, who are a poet of communication, a human being of rare calibre."

About: not adopt a traditional political career

"Well, I'm outside of politics, I don't have the traditional experience of politics and I don't want to have it, because that traditional politics sank the country."

"And I am not only a writer; published in more than 90 countries."

"Considered, with great humility, the most read psychiatrist in the world."

"Not the most handsome, right Celso?"

"The most read."

"Joking a little."

"And I am also a manager of companies."

"Some of our companies have had international impact."

"We invested in rare earths, renewable energies and also invested in agriculture, in various projects such as reforestation and grains."

"Citrus farming and so on."

About: reduce political polarization and promote national unity

"I have more experience than most of them in company management and more than the vast majority of them in assembling brilliant, notable minds to make a national pact to pacify this country whose radicalization has become schizophrenic, where people are much more concerned with sitting in the presidential chair."

"I'll tell you, I have never encountered an environment as toxic as politics."

"An environment where it's an ego war, where people have few public projects but many personal projects."

"And I have already spoken with a large portion of the politicians, the leaders of this country; all of them treated me with a lot of respect and asked that question."

"They asked: 'How can someone who doesn't need, who doesn't depend on power, who doesn't depend on the prestige and money of power...?"

"And perhaps... I have more than many candidates will ever dream of having.'"

"Why am I entering the field of politics?"

"Because worse than the action of the wicked and the corrupt is the omission of the good, those who have something to contribute."

About: reduce political polarization and promote national unity

"So, I think I can indeed contribute by inviting the best economists, the best public managers and private managers to make this national pact, not an ego pact."

"It is not a party pact; it is not about Augusto Cury, writer and entrepreneur."

"It is a pact that embraces 213 million Brazilians."

"Now, candidate, your candidacy can be compared to other candidacies that arose in other elections of rich and famous people, big businessmen, who affiliated with small centrist parties."

"I cite, for example, Pablo Marçal in 2024."

"Also with Amoedo, indeed."

"Amoedo."

"And he ended up—speaking more specifically about Pablo Marçal—using his candidacy to sell online courses."

"Later."

"Is there a risk that your candidacy will be interpreted as possible self-promotion?"

"And now I also want to pick up the thread—you mentioned your companies."