Presidential candidate Augusto Cury has ignited a fresh political debate over the future of Brazil’s vast state-owned enterprise sector, stating that a government under his leadership would privatize inefficient companies, specifically naming the national postal service, Correios. Cury, a prominent writer and candidate for the Avante party, placed the state-owned Brazilian Post Office at the center of the controversy by noting its critical social function is being undermined by a massive deficit that makes the company financially unrecoverable without private intervention. His firm stance in the lead-up to the October 2026 Brazil election forces the issue of government-controlled assets and their financial sustainability back into the national discussion.