- 2002: was elected state deputy for Mato Grosso do Sul;
- 2005 to 2010: first woman elected mayor of Três Lagoas (MS);
- 2010: took leave from her position and took over as vice-governor of Mato Grosso do Sul;
- 2014: is elected senator for Mato Grosso do Sul;
- 2021: stood out in Covid's CPI, which investigated the Bolsonaro government's management of the pandemic;
- 2022: runs for President of the Republic.
In the Federal Senate, she led the first female bench in history and became president of the Joint Committee to Combat Violence against Women. She was also the first woman to preside over the Constitution and Justice Commission (CCJ) and the first woman to run for president of the Senate in 198 years.
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The so-called “third way”
Simone Tebet's candidacy for the presidency of Brazil was raised by centrist parties and supported by a part of the Brazilian 'establishment', as an attempt to break the polarization between Lula and Bolsonaro.
Action at Covid’s CPI
The senator launched her pre-candidacy after her prominent performance in the Covid-19 Parliamentary Commission of Inquiry (CPI) in the Senate, in 2021. It was she, for example, who managed to get deputy Luis Miranda (Republicanos-DF, then in the DEM, currently União Brasil) to cite the government leader in the Chamber, Ricardo Barros (PP-PR), as the person responsible cited by Bolsonaro for alleged irregularities in the acquisition of the Indian vaccine Covaxin. (InfoMoney)
