For the pro-game, the Alagoan is not one of the greatest defenders, however, in recent years, he was one of the politicians who contributed the most to the legalization of the activity. In the year 2015, when he was president of the Senate, Renan included as a key agenda among the 11 items of its ambitious "Agenda Brasil" (agenda presented with the aim of encouraging the resumption of economic growth in the country), PLS 186/2014 of Senator Ciro Nogueira to liberate the exploitation of casinos, bingos, electronic games and critter game.
Calheiros believes that gaming could help Brazil overcome the current economic crisis. In 2016, he worked hard to take the bill several times in the Senate floor, but was unsuccessful. Even with the support of the interim government of Michel Temer (PMDB), the bill regulating gambling did not go out of business due to a dispute between egos between deputies and senators over the paternity of the proposal.
Brazil has changed a lot in the last three decades, but one thing is certain: Renan Calheiros (MDB), now a senator from Alagoas, has always been at the center of power. Even with his name steeped in proceedings, including Operation Lava-Jet, Renan not only managed to be one of the few of his generation to save himself from the wave of renewal, re-electing himself for the fourth term in the Legislative House. Now he is favored to the presidency of the Senate, a position he has held four times, and he is approaching with the government of Jair Bolsonaro (PSL).
Behind the scenes, the account is that he would have about 50 votes from the 81 parliamentarians. The decision of the president of the Federal Supreme Court (STF), minister Dias Toffoli, to keep the vote to the command of the secret Senate was celebrated by Renan.
"The democratic constitution can not be changed in the gullet or the pen," he wrote on Twitter. Together with Renan, Senator Major Olímpio (PSL), Simone Tebet (MDB-MS), Tasso Jereissati (PSDB-CE), Davi Acolumbre (DEM-AP), Alvaro Dias (Podemos-PR) and Esperidião Amin (PP-SC).
Although he does not take the candidacy officially, since the candidate's definition of the party is set for the 31st, Renan has been working around his presidential name since re-election in October when he won 621,500 votes, leaving the second wave to the Senate. He managed to get out of the ranks of voters around the "old politics" and remain in office, unlike many of his colleagues, such as Romero Jucá (MDB-RR), Edison Lobão (MDB-MA) and Garibaldi Alves (MDB- RN).
Chamber of Deputies
In the fight for the presidency of the other legislative house, Deputy Rodrigo Maia appears as the candidate to maintain his current position. For the defenders of the legalization of the game in Brazil, Maia represents a contradiction.
Its position is favorable only to the legalization of IR, as the FrenTur deputies wing requests. This thought is validated by the Tourism Minister himself and other important authorities in Brazil such as the governor of Rio de Janeiro, Witzel, and the mayor of the city, Marcelo Crivella. Meanwhile, MPs on the Pro-game Parliamentary Front refuse to be part of the "lobby of Las Vegas Sands Group's owner, Sheldon Adelson, and only agree to legalize all or none of the modalities, without a middle ground.
Source: GMB
