Writer and psychiatrist Augusto Cury, the presidential candidate of the Avante party, has registered a 200-page government plan with Brazil's Superior Electoral Court (TSE), containing 18 structural projects, according to Metrópoles. The document, filed on August 13, pairs three far-reaching institutional reforms, including a shift to semi-presidentialism, with sector proposals such as expanding telemedicine in the SUS, Brazil's public health system, and teaching emotion management in schools.
Institutional reforms
On the institutional side, the plan proposes a transition to semi-presidentialism, a model in which the president shares governing with a prime minister. It also foresees an overhaul of the Supreme Federal Court (STF), cutting the bench to nine justices, setting fixed eight-year terms and having nominations made by the legal professions themselves (judges, prosecutors and the bar association), which would strip the president of that power, Metrópoles reports. Terra, which also reviewed the document, highlights the term limits at the STF and a proposed 5x2 work schedule. A third track, called the New Economic Diplomacy, would raise the Foreign Ministry to a status similar to the U.S. State Department.
Health and education
In health, the plan bets on telemedicine to relieve pressure on the SUS, with a target of care within 30 minutes for basic cases, and includes a reform of the system, according to Terra. In education, Cury proposes full-time schools that teach, beyond technical content, emotion management, financial literacy and entrepreneurship, with policies to welcome neurodivergent students, according to Metrópoles.
Other proposals in the document include training 10 million new micro-entrepreneurs to respond to unemployment linked to artificial intelligence and robotics, a credit line with interest of 5% to 6% a year for small businesses, five export free zones, panic buttons and drones to protect women, and integrating police forces with artificial intelligence.
Cury, 67, is running for public office for the first time and declared R$ 242 million in assets to the TSE, Metrópoles reported. Regarded as the most-read Brazilian writer of the past decade, with more than 30 million books sold, he polls at 1% in the BBC News Brasil poll aggregator, which compiles surveys released through August 21. The candidate describes himself as having "a capitalist mind and a social heart" and says he would not seek reelection.
It is worth separating what is confirmed from what remains a promise: the proposals are in the document filed with the TSE, which is public on the court's DivulgaCand platform, but changes such as semi-presidentialism and the STF overhaul would require constitutional amendments approved by Congress. Neither Terra nor Metrópoles cites cost estimates or a timeline for the 30-minute telemedicine target. Voters can read the full plan on the TSE website and check the other candidates' proposals on the same platform before the first round in October.