[2] The show provoked intense controversy and ended up being banned by the Federal Police, on the grounds that the discrimination against men was unconstitutional.

In 1978, Campos returned to Rádio Tupi in Rio de Janeiro, with the programme Cidinha Livre, which gave advice and help to listeners.

She was elected federal deputy to the National Congress of Brazil in Brasília in October 1990 and sworn in in February 1991, as a member of the Democratic Labour Party, representing Rio de Janeiro state.

With policies that included guarantees for domestic servants, opposition to the death penalty, and the legalization of abortion, she received over 300,000 votes, the highest number by one candidate in the country.

For example, she was accused of having benefited from Rio de Janeiro state's administrative machinery during her 1992 campaign and was sentenced to be ineligible to serve in the Chamber for three years.

In July 1994, in protest against her candidacy for re-election being declared invalid, she camped in front of the Rio de Janeiro Court of Justice and started a hunger strike.

[1][2][3] In 1992 Campos ran unsuccessfully for the position of mayor of Rio de Janeiro, despite early opinion polls having put her ahead of other candidates.

She denounced numerous acts of corruption, including in areas such as private pension provision and advertising expenditure by the state government, and in some cases was successful in having people removed from office and convicted.

In 2013, she was asked by the then governor, Sérgio Cabral Filho, to run the State Department for Consumer Protection and Defence (Seprocon).

She failed to be re-elected to the state assembly in 2019, receiving many fewer votes than in previous elections and in 2020 resumed her broadcasting career on Super Rádio Tupi.