00:01To stay on topic, this week President Luis Inácio Lula da Silva's measure banning online
00:06gambling sites took effect.
00:08Now, just days before the election, the question is how the decision could influence voters.
00:14Our reporter Belen de los Santos brings us the story from Rio de Janeiro.
00:20With Brazil's presidential election just days away, President Lula da Silva has banned
00:25online betting platforms, including sports betting and virtual casino games.
00:29The measure presents it as a way to protect families from addiction and debt, trigger
00:34different opinions on the streets.
00:37I am extremely in favor.
00:39I agree 100 percent.
00:40I think it took too long.
00:45The game is valid, as long as people are not addicted to the game.
00:49If you are playing for sport, not for addiction or anything else, it can be valid.
00:53There is nothing against it.
00:57Those who viewed sport bets as a form of entertainment opposed the total ban.
01:05If it is a casino, that's okay.
01:07Jogo de Tigrinho, casino spades.
01:09But for sport, football in this case, which I like a lot, it is my hobby, like many Brazilians.
01:13You make a bet on your team, which player will score a goal.
01:16I bet maybe 10 reales, 20 reales.
01:18I feel very happy.
01:19I earn money.
01:19Sometimes it is my money.
01:20Sometimes it is not.
01:21But I am not addicted.
01:25However, there is a general understanding that the possibility of addiction is a real issue.
01:30I think it is better to be more careful in terms of playing.
01:40Don't get addicted.
01:43Play for sport.
01:44Don't get addicted to the game.
01:49That's what I think.
01:50Everyone has to be aware of what they are doing.
01:56Women are among the most aware and understanding of the health and economic harm that this is
02:02doing to families and communities.
02:06It is a loss because many of my clients, who are people who are working, stopped buying
02:10food, buying the first necessities, a water, a soda, because they save money to gamble.
02:24I think people are getting lost in these betting houses.
02:29They are losing the notion of family, of income.
02:33They are throwing money away.
02:38With Brazilians heading to the polls on Sunday, analysts are watching to see how much this measure,
02:44including the government's decision to take on powerful corporations in the name of public
02:48health, could influence voters' final decisions.
02:52I think we have to fight and ask the governments to stop this.
02:58This is doing harm.
03:00As the previous interviewee said, it is contaminating the brains of these young people.
03:04They don't know what it is to save money, to pay bills on time, because they are living
03:08from betting.
03:09They are living in apostasy.
03:11Francisco Zamugio, Belen de los Santos, Forchera Sub-English from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
03:15So, get started by earlier, Brazil.
03:15No one could never leave a Moore, Brazil, Brazil.
