Parliament decided to remove gambling from localities with less than 15,000 inhabitants
Today, April 9, the Chamber of Deputies adopted the draft law that removes gambling from localities with a population of less than 15,000 inhabitants.
243 MPs voted in favor and four abstained.
Thus, gambling will be prohibited in more than 90% of the localities in Romania.
Alfred Simonis, acting president of the Chamber of Deputies, said today:
“It’s a first law, a law that closes all bakeries in localities with less than 15,000 inhabitants, increases the fines substantially and in the next period we will also adopt the other laws that are submitted to the Parliament, regardless of whether we are talking about the regulation and elimination from the big cities.
We also want to see how the industry reacts to the first law, to see how the big lawyers paid a lot of money, with whom we have been threatened in the last months, to see how they react to the first law and we will adapt for the second. Or that we are talking about advertising in this industry, which must also be regulated and substantially restricted”.
Parliament decided to remove gambling from localities with less than 15,000 inhabitants
“We can accept other changes if they are auspicious. It’s a first test, a first shot. Depending on how the market will react, because the entry into force is in 10 days from the publication in the Official Gazette, that is until the end of April.
We will see how the industry will react, because from our point of view, to the consequences passed in this law (..) they have no way not to do it. We see and adapt along the way”, he also declared.
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