Mateus Simões: At the end of last year and, unfortunately, about 40 days ago we had a cleaning lady who killed two elderly people and who now says she has 40,000 reais in betting debts that also would have led her to do that.
Mateus Simões: So this is a public health issue, a consumer protection issue, it is a matter of protecting families.
And what I did was prohibit any public space of the State government from being used for the promotion of betting.
Mateus Simões: Our stadiums will not be able to be used, the margins of our roads.
Mateus Simões: And I also canceled the betting contract that our lottery had, so that the state of Minas Gerais is no longer part of this very negative cycle.