Brazilian government suspends fixed-odds betting under provisional measure

Brazil’s deputy prosecutor-general Luiz Augusto Santos Lima said at an STF public hearing on 3 November that the prosecutor-general had not yet reviewed the case challenging the provisional measure on fixed-odds betting. Justice Luiz Fux said the court could return the issue to the legislative and executive branches, and noted that the STF would need to consider eight constitutional actions if asked to rule.

Brazil's Procuradoria-Geral da República (PGR) did not state a position on the provisional measure that banned fixed-odds betting in the country. This came at the end of a public hearing convened by Justice Luiz Fux of the Supremo Tribunal Federal (STF) on 3 November. Deputy prosecutor-general Luiz Augusto Santos Lima said the prosecutor-general had not yet reviewed the case challenging the measure.