Coppolla comenta Augusto Cury, candidato: “se Brasília é um hospício, vantagem para o psiquiatra”.

Share the contrast: on one side, a "very lazy" union leader who "has no inclination to read"; on the other, a PhD psychiatrist and acclaimed author who has already sold 45 million books in the country 👀 Professor @augustocury has put his name forward for the presidency of the Republic, describing himself as a candidate with a "capitalist mind and a social heart." A brilliant intellect, like Augusto Cury's, will certainly give rise to good proposals, but perhaps his greatest contribution to this campaign will be to educate the public debate. In one of his interviews, the writer justified his political endeavor as follows: "I am entering to try to raise the level of the conversation, so that we have an intelligent and constructive campaign. I DO NOT LOVE POWER, I do not need power. I am critical of the cult of celebrity, of the NEUROTIC NEED TO BE THE CENTER OF ATTENTION. And I will go all the way, because my objective, first and foremost, is to debate ideas." The intention is noble, but Dr. Augusto Cury will face a very vain candidate, who is making his 8th attempt to become president (1989, 94, 98, 2002, 06, 18, 22, 26), and who, this Carnival, agreed to the use of public funds to finance a samba school parade in his own honor. Perhaps, during the campaign, the psychiatrist candidate will be able to tell us the appropriate clinical terms to describe this obsession with power: narcissism, megalomania, God complex?