Charging by @izanio_charges

With two cheers from the strong evangelical bench – Damares Alves and Magno Malta – it will be harder for the gambling lobby to approve the return of bingo and casinos to the Senate in 2023. December week. PL 442/91, which was approved in February at the plenary session of the Chamber of Deputies, is still in the upper house pending the appointment of a rapporteur in the process. There is not much ahead – and the prospect of approval is high in the sector’s accounts. At stake is the creation of thousands of jobs, billions in taxes for the Union and states, and more tourism.

hard stop trio

Sergio Moro is already assembling a team for Brasilia at a small table with his wife, Rosangela, elected federal deputy for São Paulo. The now-elected senator wants to invest in a partnership with her through the same speech: fighting corruption. The team was joined by former Attorney Deltan Dallagnol, also federally elected. The Trinity will rework a package of anti-corruption laws that failed Congress. Now inside they think the agenda is changing.

Hey oh we’re here!

Over the past two months, a big Sao Paulo businessman in the tech sector has been forced to block contacts due to so many calls he has received – up to 12 in one day – from a former federal MP asking for money. He wasn’t even a candidate, the strangest thing. Another one called, who will only compete in 2026. The businessman elegantly refused: he left Brazil for a few weeks and turned off the device.

signs of the times

Whether we have a new president next year or not, Congress will seethe in debate between the two names elected to the Chamber of Deputies. Former Minister of the Environment and voice in the fight against deforestation, Marina Silva (Rede) won fewer votes (237,526) than Ricardo Salles (PL) (640,918), another former portfolio holder associated with lumberjacks and miners. The two will duel over discourse on the Amazon.

On the streets

Deaths due to political ideology exposed in the media are just the tip of the iceberg into which society has crashed and is sinking. A survey conducted by UniRio showed that the number of cases of political violence in Brazil has increased by 335% over the past three years. In the first half of 2022, 214 cases were identified – and in the same period of 2019 when the study began, 47 cases were recorded.

on the square

Small and medium-sized companies are growing. According to a survey conducted by the Brazilian Development Association, until September this year, about 97.8 billion reais were financed under the Emergency Credit Access Program for Micro and Small Companies. As part of the National Micro and Small Business Support Program, up to the beginning of this month, contracts worth 91.5 billion reais were signed for small companies.