Senator Irajá Abreu, who is in charge of the bill, said that it is ready to be voted on even if evangelical groups are against it.
Brazilian casinos on land
Brazil's legal online betting market opened on January 1, but PL 2,234/2022 is still stuck in limbo even though the Justice and Citizenship Committee approved it last June.

The vote in the Senate was delayed several times, but Irajá said she is still sure that the bill will pass shortly, even though some political groups are against it.

Irajá told Poder360 last Wednesday (9 April) that the issue is ready to be discussed and voted on in the plenary. "Based on the debates we had in the senate with public hearings, the matter is ready, ripe to be discussed and voted on in the plenary, as soon as our [senate] president Davi [Alcolumbre], together with the party leaders, understands that the environment is suitable for voting."

Irajá thinks that allowing land-based casinos will bring in an extra BRL22 billion (£2.8 billion/$3.8 billion) in taxes for the state and assist tourism numbers quadruple from six million to twelve million a year.

Irajá said, "It is an important project for the country." "We're going to change Brazilian tourism for the better."

"We can't just stand by and watch Argentina, Uruguay, and Chile get millions of international tourists while Brazil doesn't because it doesn't offer this kind of responsible gambling tourism."

People in Brazil don't want land-based casinos
Irajá will be willing to change the content of the law to get support from people who are against land-based gaming, such the Evangelical Parliamentary Front, which is an opposition group.

"I am open to talking, even with the evangelical bench, which is highly against this issue being approved. "I believe in common sense," Irajá said.

Deputy Gilberto Nascimento, who became president of the Evangelical Parliamentary Front in February, has declared that his party will not support making casinos legal.

On Sunday, April 13, Nascimento told Poder360, "I will ask everyone to be against it." "We will get moving.

"Everyone is addicted to gambling; just look at what's going on with [online] betting." Casinos and games in real life tend to get worse. "Brazil is not a country that is good at gambling."

Senator Jacques Wagner of Brazil's Workers' Party told Poder360 last week that now is not the time to make gambling on land legal.

"Now is not the best moment to talk about this because of the bets' effects. Wagner went on to say, "There is no climate to vote this semester."