With the arrival of a new President it is normal that all kinds of conjectures are generated as to whether the Gambling Industry will continue, whether the incoming officials see the activity in a good light, whether there will be an increase in taxes or changes in the rules of the game. With the arrival to power of the first leftist leader in Colombia, alarms have been triggered in many sectors of the economy and ours, especially the localized ones, has not been the exception.

It is true that in the Government plan of the elected President Petro "everything is mentioned but nothing is mentioned" and many of the operators have taken the alarmist voice to show a bleak picture that has more to do with the collective imagination than with the cold and present reality, which in my concept could be seen otherwise, the issue of Health for example, which in one of its paragraphs reads:

- "For the whole population I would create a unique and public health system, which does not depend on the payment capacity and which would be focused on urban and rural areas"- and it is known by all that the source of financing of Health is the Gambling Industry , where the casinos contributed in the first quarter of 2022 with 60% of the total of the 170,000 Million Pesos , followed by the games operated by Internet and the other activities that distribute the contribution. In this sense, as I see and as I am sure you are reading this, if you want to comply with the proposal of "health for all", you cannot modify overnight what works and produces; it may be that the management of the resources is different from the current one, but the source that generates those resources must be taken care of, and this is not a matter of discussion and it must be done.

As always when changes occur, whether of a fiscal, operative or regulatory nature, there are those who, without thinking about it, clamor to know what the associations and even Mundo Video have done in this respect, and they are the ones who only appear to debate what has been done and who never contribute, who are not members of any of them and who do what the host fungus does.

The work of the associations is fundamental and the collaboration of everyone in this industry is vital.

May this be an invitation to be more active in the day to day of our industry and nurture it with contributions of all kinds, if we are asking ourselves "Where are the gambling industry with the new government", the answer may be this:

It remains where each and every one of us would like it to be ...

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