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Belo Horizonte council delays votes on betting advertising restrictions until July

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Belo Horizonte’s city council postponed a vote on two bills restricting online betting advertising, which had been scheduled for 10 June, until July. Councillor Pedro Rousseff requested the delay, saying the proposals lacked the 21 votes needed for approval; the bills cover sponsorships, social media promotion and other marketing.

Operators may face restrictions on sponsorships and online promotion if the bills are approved.

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Brazil's Luiz Fux reportedly delays betting-ban ruling until after presidential runoff

Reportedly, Brazil's Supreme Federal Court Justice Luiz Fux will postpone a decision on legal challenges to a provisional measure that banned licensed betting operators in the country until after the presidential runoff. The challenges concern the measure barring those operators from operating in Brazil.

A ruling from Justice Luiz Fux of Brazil's Supreme Federal Court (STF) on the court cases against the provisional measure that shut down licensed betting operators will wait until the presidential runoff has taken place. The second round, pitting President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva against Senator Flávio Bolsonaro, falls on 25 October. That is also the date on which the 30-day term of the measure ends for fixed-odds betting operators.

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