Bacelar will be the president of the Front, Deputy Delegate Pablo (PSL-AM), vice-president, and Deputy João Roma (PRB-BA) will be the general secretary. In his speech in the plenary of the Chamber of Deputies, the president of the new Front invited the parliamentarians to the launch and spoke about the importance of legalizing the gaming market for the country.
"I want to invite parliamentarians to implement the Parliamentary Front in defense of the Regulatory Framework of Gaming in Brazil. A country where economic growth has been a succession of disappointments; a country where real income falls annually, a country where the industrial park is in crisis, a country with 14 million unemployed; can it afford not to legalize this market? Can it afford to prevent an activity that will create 650,000 direct jobs and 600,000 indirect ones? An activity that will generate around R$ 60 billion (US$ 15bn) annually? It's not possible! We need urgent legalization of gaming in Brazil," said Deputy Bacelar.
The aims of the Parliamentary Front are:
I - To promote actions that allow the approval of PL 442/1991.
II - Support and hold events that encourage diverse policies and practices that have the objective of developing actions to defend the interests of Brazilians who support our initiative.
III - To promote the debate between the representatives and entrepreneurs who wish to invest in this sector, as well as with the public power and the population.
Among the parliamentarians who were at the launching of the Parliamentary Front in favor of the Regulatory Framework of Gaming highlighted the presence of the President of the House Tourism Committee, Dep Newton Cardoso Jr; and the president of Frentur (Parliamentary Tourism Front), Dep Herculano Passos, who spoke at the event.
At the end of the event, the president of the Front, Deputy Bacelar, evaluated the meeting as positive and highlighted the presence of businessmen of the sector and their willingness to help the country.
"The launch of the Parliamentary Front was very positive. It brought together more than 100 businessmen from all over Brazil who are interested in the economic development of the country. The legalization of the gaming sector is a way out of this serious financial crisis that we face today. "
According to the parliamentarian, the next step is to unite efforts to do a good political work with different ministries and in the House of Representatives to be able to approve the project later this year.
"Now it is time to join forces and show the ministers of economy, tourism and President Jair Bolsonaro the importance of approving the project. We will press and negotiate with Rodrigo Maia so that legalization of gaming will happen later this year. The activity is a reality in the country, and we can not be hypocrites to the point of ignoring it. The Brazilian people is not prohibited from betting, Brazil is prohibited from collecting," concluded Bacelar.
In 2016, a special committee of the House approved a project to legalize gaming, but the matter has not yet been ruled in the plenary of the Chamber. According to Bacelar, the approval of this project could generate revenues of R$ 20 billion (US$ 5bn) in taxes, in addition to about R$ 7 billion (US$ 1.75bn) with the grants.
In 2018, the CCJ (Senate Committee on Constitution and Justice) rejected a bill that legalized gambling. The bill, authored by Senator Ciro Nogueira (PP-PI), was in a slow process in the Senate since 2014 and could, according to the author, yield R$ 15 billion (US$ 3.8bn) of revenue to the states.
Source: GMB/ Poder 360
