The federal government faced a week of concentrated effort in the Senate that fell short of expectations for its electoral plans. The main ambition was the approval of the proposal to reduce the work week from 6x1 to 5x2, which would be used as a political trump card in the electoral race.
The government strategy consisted of putting the opposition in a delicate situation, calculating that voting against the proposal could be unpopular and result in loss of votes. The expectation was that senators would be pressured to approve the constitutional amendment, repeating the result obtained in the Chamber of Deputies.
In the Chamber, the proposal received overwhelming support, with 461 votes in favor against only 19 against. The government expected an equally overwhelming result in the Senate.
However, the outcome in the Senate did not match the government's projections, which ended up not achieving its main objectives despite not completely going away empty-handed. The complete article was available only for subscribers.
