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Restructuring in Brazil’s Economy Ministry

Lotteries and betting to continue in charge of Alexandre Manoel in a new secretary

The head of the Ministry of Finance's Special Secretariat for Finance, Waldery Rodrigues Júnior, announced that he will keep two secretaries who made up the team of Michel Temer in his team. Alexandre Manoel will be in charge of the new Secretariat for the Evaluation of Public Policies, Planning, Energy and Lottery created by Decree No. 9,679 signed by President Jair Bolsonaro. Under Manoel’s charge also falls to new Subsecretariat of Prizes and Draws.

The Secretariat of Federal Budget, which until then was subordinated to the Ministry of Planning, will continue under the command of George Soares. The new Secretariat for the Evaluation of Public Policies, Planning, Energy and Lottery will be led by Alexandre Manoel, Secretary of Fiscal, Energy and Lottery Monitoring in the previous ministerial configuration.

The topics related to Lotteries and Commercial Promotions will continue to be in charge of that area that will handle Alexandre Manoel. Within it, it was created an Undersecretary of Prizes and Draws that includes in its structure the General Coordination of Commercial Promotion (1 general coordinator, 1 coordinator, 2 chiefs and 2 technical assistants) and the General Lottery Coordination (1 coordinator -General, 1 coordinator, 3 heads and 2 technical assistants). Among its tasks, it would include creating the regulatory framework for the creation of the fixed bet betting market or sports betting legalized last December 12 by former president Temer.

According to President Bolsonaro's decree, the new Secretariat for the Evaluation of Public Policies, Planning, Energy and Lottery is responsible for regulating, authorizing, implementing and supervising the segments of free distribution of prizes in the form of advertisement, early withdrawal of popular savings and lotteries, including draws and other modalities of lotteries carried out by horse-racing entities and has the purpose of proposing, coordinating and executing, within the Federal Government, the policy and regulation of lotteries.

With the announcements, Waldery closes the structure of his secretary. Adolfo Sachsida had already been announced as the SPE (Secretariat for Economic Policies) and the maintenance of Mansueto Almeida in the National Treasury. For the economist, the goal is to keep the entire federal budget cycle in a single secretariat making it "more realistic, less fictitious."

The Secretariat of Finance has absorbed part of the functions of the former Ministry of Finance and has under its authority the Secretariats of Economic Policy and the National Treasury. The Internal Revenue Service will be under the responsibility of the Special Secretariat of the Brazilian Revenue. This secretariat will also be responsible for drafting tax simplification proposals.

The functions of the Planning related to the management and to the public servants were absorbed by the Special Secretariat of Management and Digital Government. The Secretariat of the Federal Budget, in charge of preparing and monitoring the General Budget of the Union, will go to the Special Secretariat of Finance.

The Ministry of Economy is born with seven special secretariats, bringing together the former Ministries of Finance, Planning and Industry, Foreign Trade and Services, as well as absorbing many of the functions of the Ministry of Labor.

The Attorney General of the National Treasury (PGFN) will continue to provide legal advice to the office of the Minister of Economy, Paulo Guedes.

Source: GMB