Stop betting advertising. The anger of managers – Politics

Stop advertising for bets and games with cash prizes. The decree of dignity wanted by Minister Luigi Di Maio is clear: the game can no longer be sponsored, jerseys of Serie A teams to newspapers or magazines. So goodbye to the VIP testimonials that, in recent years, have invaded television and billboards by winking at paris or videotextery. A provision that has infuriated the entire gambling industry, which launches the job alert: "There are thousands of jobs at risk." "Extreme worry" is also expressed by the Serie A league, which fears the "foreign hijacking of advertising budgets of our teams". In the past season alone, twelve of the top 20 teams in the best football series have been badociated with betting companies. "The Italian state – underlines the Lega – would lose up to 700 million in revenue over the next three years". In favor of the provision, however, was expressed Damiano Tommasi, president of the Italian footballers thanked by the minister Di Maio.
Gambling and betting has always been a rather controversial area, with measures that may vary from region to region, or even from city to city, as has happened recently in Rome , where Mayor Virginia Raggi has decided to limit the lighting of slots to the entire territory of the capital at eight o'clock. The intention is expressed by Di Maio himself, that of preventing and limiting gambling, the risk that the game becomes pathological. "Our system does not need bans but reforms," ​​scolds Stefano Zapponini, president of Sistema Gioco Italia, Confindustria industry industry of gaming and entertainment. "It is illusory to be able to solve the problem of diseases in this way – he emphasizes – what we hope to be the opening of a discussion table on a topic that can not be dealt with, like this was done, with an emergency decree ". "Italy is wrong to ban advertising and will increase illegality, better to regulate it strictly", the board of directors of gambling regulators in France and Spain, quoted by Agimeg agency. Many calls to the government to open a discussion table, in which to discuss how to regulate the games industry and paris. Today, Nikhlas Lindahl, Managing Director of LeoVegas, a Swedish company that also works in Italy, took the floor and bought a page on the main Italian newspapers in recent days to express his criticism of the decree. Criticism to which the same Di Maio had responded with a post on social media. Today, that the provision was signed, the entrepreneur wanted to highlight certain aspects of the document by asking the minister five questions. And in the meantime, next week the gaming sector will be gathered in an badembly that announces itself as a fire.