The senator and candidate for President of the Republic for the PL, Flávio Bolsonaro, completed his campaign schedule this Wednesday (14) in Rio Grande do Sul without speaking publicly about the PEC (Constitutional Amendment Proposal) for the end of the 6x1 work schedule, which began to be voted on in the Senate in the late afternoon.
At the same time, Flávio Bolsonaro was holding a rally in the center of Porto Alegre, emphasizing the amendment presented by the PL within the PEC of Public Security and which reduces the age of criminal responsibility to 16 years old, one of the banners of his campaign.
"The PEC that Lula sent to Congress, on public security, was to combat the police. And we in Congress have already changed it. It will be to protect orderly citizens, innocent people", he spoke to supporters.
During the agenda, Flávio Bolsonaro made no mention of the PEC at the end of the 6x1 scale, which is one of the flags of his opponent in this second round, President Lula (PT).
The PL candidate avoided the topic throughout the campaign, but, this Tuesday (13), faced with the possibility of weakening himself at the polls, he declared that he would vote in favor of the PEC. In the Senate, the expectation is that it will be approved this Wednesday night in two rounds of voting. Senators can vote electronically, without needing to be present in the plenary.
Despite the PL presidential candidate's retreat, his allies admit that, if elected, Flávio will have to propose a change. The leader of the PL in the Chamber of Deputies, Sóstenes Cavalcante (RJ), anticipated that the idea would be to approve the PEC of "payment per hour worked" in 2027. With this model, the professional could choose a contract in which they have two days off a week – but, in this case, they do not get paid for the days they do not work.
The PEC of the end of the 6x1 scale that is being voted on this Wednesday reduces the weekly working day from 44 hours to 40 hours, 14 months after enactment, and determines that all workers will have two days of paid weekly rest, one of them preferably on Sundays, without a reduction in wages.
On the agenda in Rio Grande do Sul, Flávio was accompanied by the governors elected on October 4th in the South region, Sergio Moro (Paraná), Jorginho Mello (Santa Catarina) and Luciano Zucco (Rio Grande do Sul), all from PL. The re-elected governor of São Paulo, Tarcísio de Freitas (Republicans), also participated, in addition to some elected senators.
The first campaign event in Porto Alegre, around 4pm, took place under wind and light rain on a football field in the Sarandi neighborhood, one of the hardest hit by the climate tragedy of May 2024 in the capital of Rio Grande do Sul.
The site is next to a dike that had to be partially rebuilt after sections of the structure broke.
Around 26,000 residents of the neighborhood were affected by the flood, which reached the second floor of houses in the region. The flood hit at least 8,000 buildings in the neighborhood, according to Porto Alegre City Hall. On this agenda, Flávio was accompanied by Mayor Sebastião Melo (MDB).
In August, in an interview with Jornal Nacional, on TV Globo, Flávio Bolsonaro said that extreme weather events "are cyclical" and that "I don't think this has to do directly with the influence of human beings on the environment."
Asked at the time about how he intended to protect the population from extreme events, he replied that "the best way we can protect the environment is by offering basic sanitation".
