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Brazil's President Lula bans online betting ahead of presidential election

Brazil's President Lula bans online betting ahead of presidential election
France 24 Saturday 26 September 2026, 12:36 UTC By FRANCE24 1 min read
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To display this content from YouTube, you must enable advertisement tracking and audience measurement. One of your browser extensions seems to be blocking the video player from loading. To watch this content, you may need to disable it on this site. Brazil's President Lula bans online betting ahead of presidential election Americas Issued on: Share Brazil’s President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva on Friday signed an order banning fixed-odds betting just over a week ahead of the first round of the presidential election, in a move he said was designed to tackle the pervasive problem of families falling into debt.
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