A Brazilian Senator has suggested amendments to the country’s betting laws to outlaw advertising just a couple of months into the new regulated market’s existence.
Senator Styvenson Valentim, a member of the centre-right opposition party Podemos, proposed legislation this week to amend the 2018 laws around lotteries covering fixed-odds betting.
If approved, the amendment will ban the distribution of sports betting marketing across ‘any media’, though the terminology of the Senator’s draft bill seems to focus on broadcasting, so sports sponsorship may be left out.
Valentim has placed a concern for young people at the centre of his rationale for the proposed ban.
