The National Association of Games and Lotteries (ANJL), the Brazilian trade body representing the licensed fixed-odds betting sector, has released the results of an opinion poll it had commissioned from the consultancy Cruz Consulting.
The association said the survey was conducted face-to-face between 24 and 26 March in the Metropolitan Region of São Paulo, with 1,159 respondents and a margin of error of three points at a 95 per cent confidence interval.
According to the association, the survey was designed to measure the weight of fixed-odds betting in the political evaluation of President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva among evangelical voters in Greater São Paulo.
The association reported that, asked to identify the principal reason for rejecting the president’s government, one per cent of evangelical respondents named the betting sector.
Corruption was the most frequently cited reason, at 34 per cent, followed by gender ideology, public security, decisions of the Supreme Federal Tribunal, socialism and abortion. Religion and the fight against narcotics were cited at lower rates than betting, the association said. Political reasons were grouped together at 51 per cent of the rejection profile and economic reasons at 41 per cent.
The association also reported a series of findings on the relationship of the polled evangelical population to betting itself. Fewer than three per cent of respondents said they bet regularly, and around twelve per cent said they had placed a bet at some point, with the remainder reporting that they had never participated.
Asked about the appropriate stance of the government, just under 40 per cent said they favoured a regulated or liberalised sector, while a majority supported prohibition; the association noted that about half of the latter group also said they could not distinguish licensed fixed-odds betting from games of chance more broadly, including the long-standing illegal Brazilian numbers game known as the Jogo do Bicho.
The findings were attributed to Bernardo Cavalcanti Freire, the association’s legal counsel, who said the data showed that the debate on betting did not occupy a central place in the agenda of this segment of the electorate.
The association’s president, Plínio Lemos Jorge, has previously argued that there is a mistaken interpretation when attempts are made to attribute to betting an electoral weight it does not have.
President Lula who is ideologically opposed to gambling has become increasingly critical of gambling partly as a means to chip away at the conservative religious constituency that formed the core support base of former President Jair Bolsonaro. Brazil’s next general elections are scheduled for October 4, 2026.
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The National Association of Games and Lotteries (ANJL), the Brazilian trade body representing the licensed fixed-odds betting sector, has released the results of an opinion poll it had commissioned from the consultancy Cruz Consulting. The association said the survey was conducted face-to-face between 24 and 26 March in the Metropolitan Region of São Paulo, with…
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