Ramez Tebet (7 November 1936, in

Três Lagoas Três Lagoas ("Three Ponds") is a municipality in Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil. It is the third most populous city in that state. Founded in 1915, colonization began in 1880 by Luís Correia Neves Filho, Antônio Trajano dos Santos e Protásio Garci ...

– 17 November 2006, in

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) was a Brazilian politician and lawyer. He represented

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in the Federal Senate from 1995 to 2006. The son of Taufic Tebet and Angelina Jaime Tebet, he came from a traditional Arab-Brazilian family. Tebet graduated from the Faculty of Law at UERJ (

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) in 1959. He was mayor of his hometown, Três Lagoas, in the 1970s. Tebet also served as secretary of Justice, deputy governor and governor of Mato Grosso do Sul. In the 1990s, he was minister of National Integration under President

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(PSDB). From 20 September 2001 to 31 January 2003, Tebet was the

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. He died on 17 November 2006, after suffering from liver and bladder cancer. His daughter,

Simone Tebet Simone Nassar Tebet (; born 22 February 1970) is a Brazilian academic, lawyer, and politician who has served as the Brazilian Ministry of Planning, Budget and Management (Brazil), Minister of Planning and Budget since 5 January 2023. She previo ...

, is currently Minister of Planning, Budget and Management.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Tebet, Ramez 1936 births Brazilian Democratic Movement politicians 2006 deaths People from Três Lagoas Presidents of the Federal Senate (Brazil) Governors of Mato Grosso do Sul Deaths from cancer in Mato Grosso Deaths from bladder cancer Deaths from liver cancer in Brazil Brazilian people of Lebanese descent