Corinthians trio move to keep General Assembly suspended after court approval | OneFootball

A few hours after São Paulo judge Rafael Viotti Schlobach authorised Corinthians to hold a General Assembly on statute reforms, three lifetime councillors moved to keep the 19 September meeting suspended.

According to Meu Timao, Ademir Benedito, Guilherme Strenger and Alexandre Husni filed an appeal arguing the assembly should stay on hold until a final ruling by the 4th Chamber of Private Law.

In their submission, they said the priority is to preserve an existing order that maintained the suspension until the appeal is decided, citing a 25 August 2026 determination intended to ensure legal certainty and avoid conflicting rulings.

The trio also pointed to a 16 June decision by appellate judge Mauricio Campos da Silva Velho, of the São Paulo court’s 4th Chamber of Private Law, which halted the assembly over signs of procedural non-compliance. Four days earlier they had already lodged the appeal seeking suspension.

Leonardo Pantaleão, chair of the Ethics Committee of the Deliberative Council and a defendant in the case, filed a counter-argument. He said the injunction should be lifted and the appeal closed because a first-instance ruling has already validated the assembly.

The earlier order covered both a meeting set for the 20th of that month and the one scheduled for 19 September. The councillors ask that no meeting be held until a definitive judgment.

If staged, the agenda would cover 11 proposals, including Fiel Torcedor voting rights from 2026, cutting the Deliberative Council to 200 with individual candidacies, a three-year voting qualification, a two-round presidential ballot, electing an Ethics Council of 11 members via the assembly, limiting ex officio Cori members to the last five ex-presidents of the council and board, quarterly financial statements, a transitional allowance for the current president’s re-election, and a board-funded budget for the council.

Source: Meu Timao

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