The PT bench in the Chamber filed, on Tuesday (14), a bill that prohibits the offering and promotion of fixed-odd bets across the country, popularly known as bets.
The text, filed by PT leader in the House, Pedro Uczai (PT-SC), also revokes sections of the legal framework for sports betting and online gaming in the country. The project attempts to prohibit everything from the operation of platforms to the processing of financial transactions in the medium, which, in practice, makes bets commercially unviable.
In its justification, the bench highlights that “the country’s concrete experience has shown that bets are no longer presented as simple digital entertainment but have become mechanisms for permanent capture of popular income”.
The project determines that Anatel and government bodies adopt measures to prevent the operation of websites and applications linked to betting, including blocking domains and even deindexing them in search engines in the country, preventing them from being displayed in lists, such as on Google.
The attempted ban occurs at a time when the Brazilian population is suffering from an increase in family debt, which has harmed the government’s assessment in electoral polls.
In an interview with the websites Brasil 247, Diário do Centro do Mundo and Fórum, President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva (PT) stated, yesterday afternoon, that bets and online betting platforms are robbing the population.
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“People spend R$300, R$400 per month on the internet, with a lot of things they have to hire, people spend money with Mercado Livre, and now there are bets to rob the people”, he said.
