News outlet Globo highlighted the arrival of CBF directors in Brasília to deal with the developments of the Provisional Measure (PM) on sports betting. The regulation is already in force, but needs to be approved by Congress to avoid losing its validity.
The Bill approved by the Chamber of Deputies is in the Senate and today is the last day to present amendments. Until publication of this article, only one had been presented, to prohibit advertising from betting houses.
To avenge the CBF's efforts, an amendment may appear throughout the day proposing a change in the percentages initially defined in the Bill voted in the Chamber.
The strength of the CBF president with the government and Parliament cannot be discounted. During the Parliamentary Commission of Investigation (CPI) into match-fixing, several invitations and summons indicated that he would testify at the Commission. He did everything he could to escape the meeting and his strategy of saying nothing won.
President Ednaldo Rodrigues has told interlocutors that football needs to be included in part of the tax collection from the sports betting sector, “since the vast majority of bets happen precisely in our sport,” as he has already said to his closest advisors and the members of the government and Congress.
The CBF's desire has always been to be entitled to 4% of gross revenue and for the money not to be treated as public — which would avoid accountability to supervisory bodies, such as the TCU.
Source: GMB / O Globo
