Corinthians: 10 councillors face losing seats over absences

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·8 January 2026

Corinthians: 10 councillors face losing seats over absences

By Daniel Keppler and Larissa Beppler / Central do Timão Editorial Team

Ten Corinthians councilors are expected to lose their mandates soon. On the morning of Thursday (8), the president of the Ethics and Discipline Committee (CED) and vice-president of the Deliberative Council (CD) of Corinthians, Leonardo Pantaleão, sent a dispatch to the president of the body, Romeu Tuma Júnior, informing the conclusion of an administrative procedure that investigated the attendance of CD members at meetings held in recent years.

Central do Timão obtained access to the document, which contains eight pages and is part of the preliminary procedure file 31/2025, initiated on November 17 of last year – less than two months ago, therefore. Its starting point was the preliminary analysis of the CD meeting minutes since 2024, in order to verify compliance with article 77 of the Corinthians statute, which deals with the conditions established for councilors to maintain their mandates.

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Article 77 cites attendance at meetings as a factor for maintaining the councilors' position. In its second paragraph, it determines that triennial councilors automatically lose their mandate if they miss three consecutive meetings or five alternate ones without justification; while lifetime councilors face the same sanction if they miss five consecutive meetings or ten alternate ones without justification.

This procedure was reported from the beginning by Pantaleão himself, who in Thursday's dispatch highlighted the institutional weight of the Deliberative Council in Corinthians and reinforced the importance of its members being participative in deliberations, so that these have the proper legitimacy.

The document also highlights that the finding of irregularities in councilors' attendance does not mean a personal punishment against them, representing only the mere application of statutory consequences on the subject, in order to protect the Deliberative Council itself, so that it remains composed of those who indeed participate in its functioning.

In the dispatch, Pantaleão explains that, after analyzing the minutes, ten councilors were identified whose absences without justification reached one of the limits mentioned in article 77. All were summoned to present a defense to the Ethics, but only four provided explanations (see at the end of the article).

The explanations provided, however, were not considered sufficient to reverse the statutory irregularities, revolving around reasons such as "work travel" without proof or change of email and address – in the latter case, article 24 of the Corinthians statute delegates to the member the duty to keep their contacts updated with the club.

The document also explains that, for the six councilors who chose not to submit a defense, the Ethics assumed an interpretation that silence means an implicit acknowledgment by the individuals that the irregularities were committed, that is, that the absences have no justification.

Already in the final part, the dispatch reiterates that article 77 of the statute does not require deliberation or subjective analysis to be applied, establishing objective conditions for the declaration of the loss of mandate of councilors. Because of this, it was possible to forward the procedure files to Tuma only with Pantaleão's decision in the form of the case reporter and Ethics president, without the need for collegiate deliberation.

In the conclusion of the document, Pantaleão makes three requests to Tuma: to recognize the incidence of article 77 regarding the ten councilors mentioned in the files, to inform these councilors of the conclusions of the procedure, and to adopt the other administrative measures related to the subject.

The analysis of councilors' attendance at CD meetings is considered very rare within Corinthians. There are no recent records of Ethics decisions recommending the loss of a councilor's mandate due to excessive absences. However, the lack of attendance of the ten councilors targeted by this procedure was blatant. As an example, it is possible to cite that none of them participated in the meetings in the body that deliberated on the impeachment of former president Augusto Melo, in 2024 and 2025.

Central do Timão found that the president of the CD is expected to accept the recommendations and, with that, all ten councilors who were the target of the procedure are expected to lose their mandates in the body, with immediate effect from Tuma's decision – which does not have a scheduled date to occur. For the triennial ones, this decision is definitive, according to the statute; for the lifetime ones, article 77 provides that an appeal to the plenary is possible.

Check the names of the ten councilors who are expected to lose their mandates in the Corinthians Deliberative Council:

Cláudio Marcon: Lifetime councilor. Was summoned but did not defend himself.

Fernando Capez: Lifetime councilor. Jurist, retired Justice prosecutor, professor, and former state deputy. Defended himself, claiming he was unaware of CD meetings because his email was incorrect and his address was outdated;

Francisco Cuano Filho: Lifetime councilor. Was summoned but did not defend himself.

Jair João de Lima: Triennial councilor, elected by Chapa 82 (Movimento Corinthians Grande). Defended himself, claiming he provided justifications in January this year and that the absences were related to work trips;

Luiz Paulo Ferreira Teixeira: Lifetime councilor. Lawyer, professor, and politician, current Minister of Agrarian Development and Family Agriculture of the Federal Government. Was summoned but did not defend himself.

Marcelo Ackel Dualib: Lifetime councilor. Grandson of former president Alberto Dualib. Was summoned but did not defend himself.

Marcos Surjan Trofo Filho: Lifetime councilor. Businessman in the natural flower trade sector. Was summoned but did not defend himself.

Nelson Real Dualib: Lifetime councilor. Grandson of former president Alberto Dualib. Was summoned but did not defend himself.

Paul Reiter: Triennial councilor, elected by Chapa 82 (Movimento Corinthians Grande). Defended himself, saying his absences were related to health problems and lack of Internet access on specific dates;

Rubens Tavares Aidar: Lifetime councilor. Judge, former president of the Regional Labor Court of São Paulo (TRT-SP). Defended himself, claiming the absences were related to his health conditions, with mobility limitations that hindered his attendance at CD meetings.

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