Who is Hamilton Mourão, senator from RS who was the only one to vote against the 6 x 1 scale

The PEC of the end of the 6x1 shift changes the Constitution to reduce weekly working hours from 44 to 40 hours. It also establishes that it is necessary to guarantee two days off with pay, one of them preferably on Sundays. The big change is to guarantee that workers have two days of rest per week without the possibility of a salary reduction.

Born in Porto Alegre, Antônio Hamilton Martins Mourão is 73 years old and was vice-president of the Republic during the government of Jair Bolsonaro (2019-2022). In 2022, he was elected senator by the Republicans.

Mourão joined the Army in 1972, at the Agulhas Negras Military Academy, in Resende (RJ). In his military career, he worked in countries such as Angola and Venezuela, in addition to working in Ijuí, in the Northwest of RS, São Gabriel da Cachoeira (AM) and Porto Alegre.

Between 2014 and 2016, the general was Military Commander of the South, a post based in the capital of Rio Grande do Sul. Dismissed from the Army's Economy and Finance Secretariat in 2017, Mourão joined the reserve in 2018.

In the same year, Hamilton Mourão joined the PRTB and was a candidate for Jair Bolsonaro's vice-president in the presidential elections. The ticket was elected in the second round, with 55.1% of the votes. In 2022, the vice president joined the Republicans.