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40 statements · 1 politicians · July 8, 2025
Statements by Marcos Rogério. 40 transcribed statements, with topic and stance on the ones the analysis classified. Topics: Gambling & Credit Regulation, Legislative Process, Public Health / Public Safety, Economic Development.
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Mr. President, Ladies and Gentlemen Senators, the matter that brought me to this podium initially was precisely the matter that was on the agenda, item 4.
- Neutral
About: authorize betting games
I would address today the topic of gambling, because I think it is the most sensitive issue we would have to discuss today.
- Against
About: authorize betting games
And my position Brazil already knows: it is a public position, it is a transparent position against the legalization of gambling in Brazil.
- Against
About: authorize betting games
This is a disgrace for the country. It is something that makes people ill, imprisons families, victimizes society.
- Against
About: authorize betting games
Gambling promises luck, but delivers ruin, destruction.
- Against
About: authorize betting games
And whoever plants gambling already chooses misfortune as the outcome; there is no other possible result.
- Against
About: authorize betting games
Irremediably, Mr. President, whoever chooses that path chooses, sometimes even unconsciously, the path of destruction.
- Against
About: authorize betting games
There is not a single case of anyone who has succeeded in life by going through gambling, except the owner of the betting house, except those who operate the system, except organized crime, which, not infrequently, is the one behind this issue.
About: keep the vote on legalization of gambling on the agenda
But, since Your Excellency is removing it from the agenda today, I regret it very much.
About: keep the vote on legalization of gambling on the agenda
I think differently from Senator Girão; I do not want to postpone this discussion.
- Against
About: authorize betting games
I want to confront it, I want to vote, so that this Plenary may bury once and for all the issue of gambling in Brazil, because it is not possible that anyone lacks the conscience, the vision, the clarity of the harm that the gambling agenda is causing in Brazil — see, for example, the bets.
- Neutral
About: authorize betting games
And they said: "Let's legalize the bets to take those who operate them out of obscurity, illegality, clandestinity, so they can contribute, so wealth can be generated, so development can be generated."
- Against
About: authorize betting games
And I ask: what is the result that Brazil is experiencing today, success or failure on the gambling agenda with regard to the experience of bets?
- Neutral
About: implement prevention and treatment policies for gambling addiction
Better health or disease, gambling disorder, addiction, criminality? What is the result?
What is the result? Where is the good side?
- Ambiguous
About: promote economic development and national autonomy
"Oh, it will promote economic and social development." Where?
- Against
About: authorize betting games
To which country in the world has the legalization of gambling brought development, prosperity, strong families?
About: implement prevention and treatment policies for gambling addiction
No! It's the opposite: it brought destruction, it brought very serious problems to public health, it brought problems to public security.
- Neutral
About: authorize betting games
So, this is an issue I want to have the opportunity to discuss in more depth when this agenda is being debated with the Plenary.
- Neutral
About: authorize betting games
So, I will forgo giving a deeper speech, because I want to have this debate by talking, dialoguing with each of my colleagues about the gravity of that political choice — because it is a political choice, Senator Girão.
- Against
About: authorize betting games
Approving or rejecting the legalization of gambling is a political choice, but the consequences will be inevitable for the whole of Brazil, especially for the Brazilian family.
So, I will have this debate at the right time.
I therefore, Mr. President, change the subject to highlight today a statement that reverberated throughout the world yesterday.
- Neutral
About: foreign leaders opining on Brazil's internal politics
And it was not just any comment; it was a declaration made by the President of the United States, Donald Trump, one of the most influential leaders in the world.
- Neutral
About: criticisms by foreign leaders of the treatment of Brazilian ex-presidents
He stated, in explicit terms, that Brazil is doing a terrible thing in the way it is treating former President Jair Bolsonaro.
- Neutral
About: have foreign leaders publicly defend Brazilian ex-presidents
He added: he is guilty of nothing, except for having fought for his people.
- Neutral
About: compare political and judicial processes between countries
President Trump compared what Bolsonaro is facing to what he himself experienced in the United States, saying that it happened to him at times in his country.
And so, I bring here a few points for us to reflect on.
About: leave ex-President Jair Bolsonaro alone and avoid political persecution
Bolsonaro is being the target of a witch hunt and political persecution.
And he compares the situation of the former Brazilian President with the very legal battles he faced on American soil.
- Neutral
About: leave ex-President Jair Bolsonaro alone
He stressed that Bolsonaro is not guilty and asked that he be left alone.
- Neutral
About: that political leaders be judged at the ballot box, not by the courts
He suggested that his legitimate judgment would come at the ballot box, not in the courts.
- Against
About: ask foreign leaders not to comment on Brazil's internal politics
Having made these considerations about President Trump's remarks, I want to express my perplexity at the reaction given to President Trump's statement by President Lula and by the PT in Brazil — I repeat: the reaction that Lula and the PT gave to the U.S. President's remarks.
- Neutral
About: ask foreign leaders not to comment on Brazil's internal politics
Lula asked Trump not to meddle in our affairs.
- Against
About: maintain consistency when reacting to foreign interventions
But that is precisely where the problem lies: the incoherence of the current government's discourse.
- Neutral
About: Restore institutional ties with international organizations for dialogue and concertation
Has President Lula forgotten what PT itself did when he was imprisoned, when he was convicted?
- Neutral
About: resort to international mechanisms (UN, parliaments, media) in political cases
At that time, PT ran around the world asking for international help; they appealed to the UN Human Rights Committee; Celso Amorim created an international committee solely to publicize, Senator Zequinha, information abroad about Lula's imprisonment; they requested an observation mission from the European Parliament; they made a video for Al Jazeera asking for the support of the Arab world; they even sought the Nobel Peace Prize.
- Neutral
About: Restore institutional ties with international organizations for dialogue and concertation
This is normal, all of this is normal, all of this is permissible, because, in their view, there was an injustice in Brazil, and the world needed to know what was happening at that moment.
- Neutral
About: Restore institutional ties with international organizations for dialogue and concertation
Furthermore: under Dilma's government, it was no different.
- Neutral
About: seek international mobilization to challenge political processes
When the impeachment took place, PT also went around the world, appealed to the OAS and to ECLAC, and tried to mobilize the international community to block the impeachment process of then‑President Dilma.
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