“We are mobilizing here, me, [Eduardo] Girão [against the bill],” said the senator. “But we are not the majority,” he assessed. “It seems that the government also wants [approval].”
In the Senate’s CCJ session in June, three of the four votes of PT senators were in favor of legalizing gambling. The bill was approved by 14 to 12.
Two days later, in an interview with a radio station, President Lula washed his hands of the matter: “If Congress approves it, and an agreement is reached between the political parties (…) there is no reason not to sanction it.”
Cleitinho is one of the 22 members of the Evangelical Parliamentary Front in the Senate, which is chaired by Carlos Viana (Podemos), also from Minas Gerais.
Viana also said today that the group will “use everything possible in the rules” to delay the vote on the bill.
Source: O Fator
