Kajuru announces retirement from politics after Parkinson’s diagnosis
Senator Jorge Kajuru (PSB-GO) stated that he will not run for a seat in the Chamber of Deputies, a possibility that he even considered, and announced his retirement from political life. The parliamentarian stated that he will prioritize health over what he stated was the desire of the Brazilian Socialist Party (PSB). The statement was made in an interview with the Goiás newspaper The Popularon Monday, 26.
Kajuru (PSB-GO) revealed that he had been diagnosed with Parkinson’s in December last year. The parliamentarian had not yet spoken publicly about the disease, but stated that he had already started treatment.
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The senator had also evaluated the possibility of running for the Chamber of Deputies for São Paulo in this year’s elections. According to him, this was PSB’s intention, an idea that emerged from conversations with the Minister of Entrepreneurship, Márcio França, a member of the party. However, he stated that it was not what he wanted and that, if he remained in politics, he would run for a position in Goiás.
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Despite saying that he is well accepted in São Paulo and being from São Paulo, Kajuru stated that politics “doesn’t attract him at all anymore”. The senator also said that he will officially communicate the decision to the party this week.
As shown by Estadão in 2024, Kajuru criticized the excess of days without activity in the National Congress and stated that work in the Senate was being hampered by the lack of deliberative sessions.
On the occasion, the parliamentarian complained that holding the G20 (P-20) Parliamentary Summit, between the 6th and 8th of November, would compromise the work of the Parliamentary Commission of Inquiry (CPI) on the Manipulation of Games and Sports Betting, which he chairs.
In 2025, Kajuru took a 30-day leave of absence from the Senate to treat health problems such as insomnia and depression, muscle weakness and intestinal polyps. Diabetic, the senator has been in Congress since 2019, the same year he had a tumor removed from his pancreas.
Before reaching the Senate, he was elected councilor of Goiânia as the most voted councilor in the city’s history. In 2018, he was elected senator for Goiás with more than 1.5 million votes.
