Photo: Ale Cabral/CPB
Photo: Ale Cabral/CPB
The veto was published this Thursday, 2, in the Official Gazette of the Executive Branch. In the justification for the proposal, which had among the authors the four-time world champion Bebeto (Podemos), the then state deputy Flávio Bolsonaro (Patriota) and the current state secretary for the Environment, Thiago Pampolha (PDT), Castro claims that the matter is private competence of the Executive Branch.
The governor also claimed that Loterj is an autarchy endowed with financial autonomy and that it depends on revenue from ticket sales, budget resources and other sources. In the veto, Castro said he had consulted the agency, which replied that the measure would bring operational losses.
"By removing the possibility of reinvesting unclaimed prizes in future games, the measure would create a real stalemate in the games, removing the main mechanism capable of increasing sales and attracting new players (...) offering attractive prizes to the public, resulting in a decrease of the revenue (…) to be invested in social, educational, sports, etc.,” says the letter.
The main source of funding for Brazilian Paralympic sport is the Agnelo/Piva Law, based on the collection of Lotteries by Caixa Econômica Federal (CEF), implemented in 2001. The sport is responsible for 2.7% of the total volume collected with bets. Of this amount, whatever the value, Paralympic sport receives 37.04%. The remaining 62.96% are destined for Olympic sport.
Until 2015, before the approval of the Brazilian Law of Inclusion, considering the statute of the person with a disability, the amount allocated by lotteries to finance sport was 2% of the collection, divided into 85% for Olympic sport and 15% for Paralympic sport.
Source: CNN Brasil
