Political Debate on Work Week Changes

Because I was mentioned, and I request the right of reply.

The gentlewoman has one minute.

Mr. President, the sheer nerve, the intellectual

dishonesty, and the circus act flip-flopping

that the far right is putting on in this chamber is

truly astonishing. The leader, the chair of their

party, went to the press and said they'd fight tooth and

nail to stop ending the six-day work week.

If we're voting on a five-day week today, it's because

they obstructed and blocked the vote on the four-day week.

Then they got slammed by the working class,

slammed by the labor unions, slammed by the public,

and now they're putting on this act, this pathetic

show, this farce. Workers and the

public aren't fools, and they'll send a message at the ballot

box.

They're the humiliated ones who overnight had to...

Give me thirty more seconds, Mr. President, to wrap up.

They had to change their stance just last

night.

President. President.

Thank you, Mr. President. Change their stance.

What's humiliating, Mr. President, is becoming a congressman

by posting pubic waxing tutorials on the internet.

That is what's humiliating, not changing your

stance. Humiliating is refusing to stand

by your own convictions. Long live the Brazilian

working class. Long live President Lula, and

long live our fight to end the six-day work week.

Oh, Lord.