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José Francisco Manssur questions Brazil’s betting ban and regulatory certainty

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Lawyer José Francisco Manssur criticised Brazil’s provisional measure halting authorised betting operations during a videocast discussion, saying it raised questions about legal certainty. Manssur, who said he helped draft the regulations, also argued that the measure did not address people with gambling-related problems and said regulation had reduced the number of illicit businesses.

The debate concerns the effect of the measure on regulated operators and football-club contracts.

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Brazil opinion article questions constitutional limits of betting ban under MP 1.394

A BNLData opinion article by Felipe Augusto Loschi Crisafulli argues that Provisional Measure 1.394 of 25 September 2026 returns betting to an absolute prohibition. The author contends that once regulation delivered protections such as age checks, self-exclusion and consumer safeguards, the state must justify any reduction in protection levels. He cites the constitutional principle against social retrogression and Supreme Federal Court case law on limits to undoing social gains.

Brazil's Provisional Measure 1.394 of 25 September 2026 returned betting to an absolute prohibition, an opinion column on a Brazilian betting industry site said. The columnist, Felipe Augusto Loschi Crisafulli, argued that the measure raises a constitutional question that has gone unnoticed. He asked whether the state may undo a regulatory system that gave effect to fundamental rights and duties to protect citizens without showing that the alternative offers equivalent or greater protection.

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