On Thursday, December 15th, Congress kept President Jair Bolsonaro's veto of the article that stipulated a period of 30 days for the Ministry of Economy to define the rules for the operation of Health and Tourism lotteries, which must be granted to the Ministry of Health and the of Tourism, respectively.
Congress approved Law 14,455/2022, creating lotteries to finance health and tourism and on September 21, the President of the Republic sanctioned it, however, vetoing Article 3, which determined a deadline for the Ministry of Economy to regulate the two new lottery modalities.
In this Thursday's session (15), the Congress met to analyze vetoes to 18 laws sanctioned by the President and one of them is precisely Law 14.455/2022. The partial veto (VET 50/2022) was maintained by parliamentarians.
With the maintenance of the veto by Congress, the Ministry of Economy keeps its autonomy to define, within the period it deems convenient, the concession rules.
The veto decision by the Executive was explained at the time as follows: “The legislative proposal is found to be unconstitutional, since, by stipulating a deadline for the Ministry of Economy to discipline the rules for granting the exploitation of these lotteries, it would violate the provisions of art. 2 and in item II of the caput of art. 84 of the Constitution.”
Maintaining the veto could allow Caixa Econômica Federal itself to operate the two new lotteries and, through them, operate sports betting in competition with Law 13.756/18, whose regulation is still in the hands of the Ministry of Economy.
Source: GMB
