Tereza Cristina

Brazilian senator and former minister

Tereza Cristina
Tereza Cristina in 2023

Senator for Mato Grosso do Sul
Incumbent
Assumed office 1 February 2023
Preceded by	Simone Tebet
Member of the Chamber of Deputies
In office 31 March 2022 – 1 February 2023
In office 1 February 2015 – 1 February 2019
Constituency	Mato Grosso do Sul
Minister of Agriculture, Livestock and Supply
In office 1 January 2019 – 31 March 2022
President	Jair Bolsonaro
Preceded by	Blairo Maggi
Succeeded by	Marcos Montes
Mato Grosso do Sul Secretary of Agrarian Development, Production, Industry, Trade and Tourism
In office 1 January 2007 – 7 April 2014
Governor	André Puccinelli
Preceded by	João Crisóstomo Mauad Cavallero
Succeeded by	Paulo Engel

Personal details
Born	Tereza Cristina Corrêa da Costa Dias (1954-07-06) 6 July 1954 (age 69) Campo Grande, Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil
Political party	PP (2022–present)
Other political affiliations	PSDB (2003–13) PSB (2013–17) DEM (2017–22) UNIÃO (2022)
Education	Federal University of Viçosa
Occupation	Agronomic engineer, entrepreneur

Tereza Cristina Corrêa da Costa Dias (born 6 July 1954) is a Brazilian entrepreneur, agronomic engineer, and politician, member of the Progressistas (PP). She has been a Federal Deputy since 2015, representing the state of Mato Grosso do Sul, and is a member of the congressional ruralist front.^[1] In November 2018, Jair Bolsonaro, as president-elect, announced that she would be Minister of Agriculture, Livestock and Supply and the first woman to compose the new government, which was inaugurated on 1 January 2019.^[2] She was appointed by a group of 20 members of the Farming Parliamentary Front (FPA). In the 2022 elections, Cristina was elected Senator for the state of Mato Grosso do Sul, having resigned from the Cabinet of Jair Bolsonaro.^[3]

Biography

Tereza Cristina Corrêa da Costa Dias was born in Campo Grande, Mato Grosso do Sul, and received a bachelor's degree in agronomy from the Federal University of Viçosa.^[4] Tereza Cristina was Secretary of Agrarian Development, Production, Industry, Trade and Tourism of Mato Grosso do Sul during the governorship of André Puccinelli (PMDB).

In the Mato Grosso do Sul state elections in 2014, she was elect Federal Deputy with 75,149 votes.^[5] In January 2017, Tereza was elected Leader of the Brazilian Socialist Party (PSB) in the Chamber of Deputies, defeating Deputy Tadeu Alencar (PE) with 22 to 14 votes. Therefore, she became leader of a group of 36 deputies.^[6]

She left PSB in October 2017 after the party joined the opposition to president Michel Temer. Other deputies followed her, like Fabio Garcia (MT), Adilton Sachetti (MT) and Danilo Forte (CE), as well as Minister of Mines and Energy Fernando Coelho Filho.^[7] In December, she joined the Democrats (DEM), party of the President of the Chamber Rodrigo Maia (RJ).^[8]

In 2018, Tereza Cristina headed a Chamber special committee that approved Bill 6,299, aimed at ending regulations on many pesticides in the country,^[1] earning her the nickname "The Poison Muse".^[9]^[10]

References

^ ^a ^b Camargos, Daniel (26 September 2018). "Campanha de defensora de lei pró-agrotóxicos já recebeu 350 mil reais de executivos ligados ao setor" (in Portuguese). El País. Retrieved 7 November 2018.
^ "Tereza Cristina (DEM-MS) será ministra da Agricultura de Bolsonaro" (in Portuguese). Folha de S. Paulo. 7 November 2018. Retrieved 7 November 2018.
^ "Tereza Cristina é eleita senadora de MS com 61% dos votos válidos". G1 (in Portuguese). 2 October 2022. Retrieved 2 October 2022.
^ Tereza Cristina: veja quem é e o que pensa a ministra da Agricultura de Bolsonaro, Canal Rural (UOL), accessed 7 November 2018
^ "Tereza Cristina 4040" (in Portuguese). Eleições 2014. Retrieved 7 November 2018.
^ "Deputada Tereza Cristina é a nova líder da bancada do PSB na Câmara" (in Portuguese). Liderança do PSB na Câmara. 30 January 2017. Retrieved 7 November 2018.
^ Rothenburg, Denise (24 October 2017). "Deputados deixam o PSB, destino provável é o DEM" (in Portuguese). Correio Braziliense. Retrieved 7 November 2018.
^ "Deputada Tereza Cristina assina filiação ao Democratas e ressalta qualidades do partido" (in Portuguese). Democratas. 19 December 2017. Retrieved 7 November 2018.
^ "Bolsonaro administration approves 197 pesticides in five months". Brasil de Fato (in Brazilian Portuguese). 2019-05-22. Retrieved 2019-07-13.
^ "The Economists, Military, Moralists and Politicians Running Brazil Now". Bloomberg.

Political offices
Preceded by João Crisóstomo Mauad Cavallero	Mato Grosso do Sul Secretary of Agrarian Development, Production, Industry, Trade and Tourism 2007–2017	Succeeded by Paulo Engel
Preceded by Blairo Maggi	Minister of Agriculture, Livestock and Supply 2019–2022	Succeeded by Marcos Montes

Cabinet of Jair Bolsonaro (2019–2022)

Cabinet
Minister of Agriculture, Livestock and Supply	Tereza Cristina (2019–2022) Mauro Montes (2022)
Minister of Citizenship	Osmar Terra (2019–2020) Onyx Lorenzoni (2020–2021) João Roma (2021–2022) Ronaldo Bento (2022)
Minister of Communications	Fábio Faria (2020–2022)
Minister of Defence	Fernando Azevedo e Silva (2019–2021) Walter Souza Braga Netto (2021–2022) Paulo Sérgio Nogueira de Oliveira (2022)
Minister of Economics	Paulo Guedes (2019–2022)
Minister of Education	Ricardo Vélez Rodríguez (2019) Abraham Weintraub (2019–2020) Milton Ribeiro (2020–2022) Victor Godoy (2022)
Minister of the Environment	Ricardo Salles (2019–2021) Joaquim Alvaro Pereira Leite (2021–2022)
Minister of Foreign Affairs	Ernesto Araújo (2019–2021) Carlos Alberto França (2021–2022)
Minister of Health	Luiz Henrique Mandetta (2019–2020) Nelson Teich (2020) Eduardo Pazuello (2020–2021) Marcelo Queiroga (2021–2022)
Minister of Infrastructure	Tarcísio Gomes de Freitas (2019–2022) Marcelo Sampaio (2022)
Minister of Justice and Public Security	Sérgio Moro (2019–2020) André Mendonça (2020–2021) Anderson Torres (2021–2022)
Minister of Labour and Social Security	Onyx Lorenzoni (2021–2022) José Carlos Oliveira (2022)
Minister of Mines and Energy	Bento Costa Lima (2019–2022) Adolfo Sachsida (2022)
Minister of Regional Development	Gustavo Canuto (2019–2020) Rogério Marinho (2020–2022) Daniel de Oliveira (2022)
Minister of Science, Technology and Innovation	Marcos Pontes (2019–2022) Paulo Alvim (2022)
Minister of Tourism	Marcelo Álvaro Antônio (2019–20) Gilson Machado (2020–2022) Carlos Brito (2022)
Minister of Women, Families and Human Rights	Damares Alves (2019–2022) Cristiane Britto (2022)

Cabinet-level
Vice President	Hamilton Mourão (2019–2022)
Chief of Staff	Onyx Lorenzoni (2019–2020) Walter Souza Braga Netto (2020–2021) Luiz Eduardo Ramos (2021) Ciro Nogueira Lima Filho (2021–2022)
Attorney General	André Mendonça (2019–2020) José Levi do Amaral (2020–2021) André Mendonça (2021–21) Bruno Bianco (2021–2022)
Comptroller General	Wagner de Campos Rosário (2019–2022)
Secretary of Government	Santos Cruz (2019) Luiz Eduardo Ramos (2019–2021) Flávia Arruda (2021–2022) Célio Faria Júnior (2022)
Secretary of Institutional Security	Augusto Heleno (2019–2022)
Secretary-General of the Presidency	Gustavo Bebianno (2019) Floriano Peixoto Vieira Neto (2019) Jorge Oliveira (2019–2020) Onyx Lorenzoni (2021) Luiz Eduardo Ramos (2021–2022)