Cover-up suspected: São Paulo board drops Casares impeachment | OneFootball

The Tuesday afternoon meeting (6), held urgently by the São Paulo Advisory Council, ended as everyone expected, with a whiff of pizza.

The group, which does not have the power to decide whether Julio Casares should leave or not, decided not to recommend his impeachment to the president. Even amid various accusations and scandals involving the name of the president, the Council claimed that ‘there is no material evidence to justify a favorable opinion for presidential impeachment,’ according to a statement issued to the press.

The Tricolor Advisory Council is composed of 12 members, but three were absent from today’s meeting. Present were president Julio Casares himself, Olten Ayres, Carlos Miguel Aidar, Marcelo Pupo, Ives Gandra, Leco, José Carlos Ferreira Alves, José Eduardo Mesquita Pimenta, and Paulo Amaral Vasconcelos.

For health reasons, Milton José Neves and Paulo Planet could not attend, as well as Fernando Casal de Rey, who is traveling abroad.

The vote was only advisory, since the body does not have the power to confirm Casares’ removal, and resulted in eight to one against recommending presidential impeachment. Only the opposition member José Carlos Ferreira Alves voted in favor of recommending the removal of the club president.

The various impeachment requests will still be analyzed by the Deliberative Council, in a vote expected to take place within 30 days. If at least 171 council members vote in favor of Julio Casares’ removal, then the process will move forward within the club.

This Tuesday, the news that the police are investigating R$ 1.5 million received by Casares and R$ 11 million withdrawn from the club by São Paulo’s management increased the pressure on the president even more. The investigation indicates that he can only justify R$ 1 out of every R$ 5 received in his account.

See the official statement issued by the Council:

“The SPFC Advisory Council, after examining the impeachment request for the Club President submitted by the Deliberative Council and signed by 57 council members and two UOL news articles, after hearing from President Júlio Casares, by majority vote, decided that:

1 – The accusations lack material evidence, specifically against the President, who claimed innocence.

2 – The General Secretary of the Council, in his book “Impeachment in the 1988 Constitution” – Cejup Edition – Belém do Pará – 1992¹, showed through the use of this Institute in Brazil and abroad, that the decision of the Collegiate body (parliament), when using it, has an initial legal basis, but its final decision is political, that is, whether the accused person has the conditions or not to continue leading the Country, the provincial or municipal federative unit under their command.

3 – Despite the seriousness of the moment, given the lack of material evidence or behavior that has not already been routinely used in the management of the Club, it is understood that, from a strictly legal point of view, there are no elements of material evidence to justify a favorable opinion for presidential impeachment.

José Eduardo Mesquita Pimenta President of the Advisory Council”.

Few fans made noise

A few São Paulo fans showed up late this afternoon in front of the building where the meeting was taking place, in the city center, and protested against the club’s management.

With a banner reading “CRIMINAL MANAGEMENT,” the Tricolor fans confronted Julio Casares as he left the meeting and hit the car the president was in. Check it out below:

This article was translated into English by Artificial Intelligence. You can read the original version in 🇧🇷 here.