MAR 26 DE NOVIEMBRE DE 2024 - 11:47hs.
Casino, bingos and jogo do bicho

Nominated to head Tourism portfolio, deputy Sabino voted to release gambling in Brazil

Deputy Celso Sabino, nominated by União Brasil for the Ministry of Tourism, voted in favor of legalizing gambling in Brazil. The proposal was approved by the Chamber in February last year and provides for the release of casinos, bingos and the jogo do bicho.

The project was approved with 246 votes, against 202, and was opposed by most of the PT bench. The proposal did not begin to proceed in the Senate.

The legalization of gambling is one of the matters pertaining to the Tourism portfolio. Ministers who passed through the portfolio in other governments defended proposals focused on the subject, such as the integration of casinos to resorts.

The evangelical bench in Congress opposes all proposals to allow gambling.

Daniela Carneiro, the minister whose days are numbered in the Lula government, is evangelical and should join the Republicans, a party linked to the Universal Church.

Source: Metrópoles