Turbulent night at Parque São Jorge, Corinthians keeps Cori vote in CD | OneFootball

Corinthians’ Deliberative Council (CD) met on the night of last Monday (18) to examine the club’s bylaw reform project. The meeting, held at Parque São Jorge, had as its main agenda item the vote on the election model for the Advisory Council (Cori), a topic that had not been reviewed at previous meetings.

The proceedings were led by Leonardo Pantaleão, acting president of the CD, joined at the table by the body’s first secretary, Maria Ângela Ocampos, Reform Commission president Dalton Gioia, and the council’s second secretary, Denis Piovesan.

Photo: Henrique Vigliotti/Central do Timão

The agenda provided for three voting alternatives for the councilors regarding the method of electing Cori. The first, called alternative A, proposed a mixed model in which half of the body’s members would be elected by the General Assembly (AG) of members and the other half by the Deliberative Council. Alternative B provided for the full election of Cori by the AG. Alternative C maintained the current model, with ten full members and ten alternates chosen from among the club’s own councilors.

Alternative C was approved by a wide majority among the councilors present. Of the 102 votes recorded, 90 were in favor of maintaining the current model, while alternative A received seven votes and alternative B received five. Among the lifetime councilors, all voted to keep the current model, except for Romeu Tuma Júnior and Dalton Gioia, who chose alternative A.

As a result, the members, at a General Assembly scheduled for June 20, will vote on this and 14 other highlighted points of the bylaw reform, in addition to the base text rejected by the CD, which is nevertheless expected to be submitted for the members’ consideration by decision of the council’s presidency.

How the meeting went 

Three-year councilor Vinícius Cascone was the first to speak and criticized the definition of the content that will be taken to the General Assembly. According to him, the Reform Commission defined the base text without including several proposals presented during the public hearings. Cascone also stated that, in his legal understanding, any member could consider the process illegal and asked Pantaleão to rule on a point of order.

Romeu Tuma Júnior, licensed president of the CD, interjected and claimed that all statutory procedures had been followed for the appointment of the Reform Commission.

Ademir de Carvalho Benedito, former president of the Deliberative Council and an ex officio member of Cori, also asked to speak. According to him, in 2024 the Council did not approve a bylaw reform, but merely recognized the need to make changes to the document.

Pantaleão responded to Cascone’s criticism by saying that the members were heard and had the opportunity to submit proposals. According to the acting president, the matters that will or will not go to the General Assembly are already listed in the notice of meeting.

Pantaleão’s position was challenged by three-year councilors and Cori members Paulo Pedro and Felipe Ezabella. Both criticized the reform project and said they had identified that about 85% of the text would be similar to the one presented in November 2025 and approximately 80% would match the proposal defended by Romeu Tuma Júnior in 2022.

Ezabella told the plenary that he had filed a request to challenge the notice calling the General Assembly intended to vote on the bylaw reform. According to him, the CD was disrespected by forwarding the base text to the AG, since the body is not merely consultative in nature.

Pantaleão confirmed receipt of the request and explained the reasons for not accepting it. According to the acting president of the CD, the main disagreement over the reform is related to the proposal’s base text. He argued that the bylaws do not explicitly provide that only matters approved by the Council may be forwarded to the General Assembly and that, given this omission, the understanding prevails that the AG, the club’s highest authority, has the legitimacy to deliberate on the matter.

Based on this, Pantaleão decided to send to the General Assembly the decision on whether or not to ratify the base text rejected by the council. It was also established that, among the 15 highlighted points analyzed, only the winning texts will be submitted to the members.

Lifetime councilor Rubens Gomes, known as Rubão, said that Pantaleão was adopting “double standards” by forwarding the base text rejected by the CD and only the highlights approved by the council.

Ademir Benedito, in turn, countered Pantaleão’s interpretation and said that the bylaws are not silent on the matter. According to him, the bylaw text is clear in establishing that proposals rejected by the Deliberative Council should not be forwarded for consideration by the General Assembly.

After boos in the theater at the social headquarters and shouts of “dictatorship,” Pantaleão started the vote, but had to temporarily interrupt the process due to questions from the councilors about the voting.

Lifetime councilor André Luiz de Oliveira, known as André Negão, protested against the decision to forward the base text to the General Assembly and was involved in a heated argument with Tuma and Pantaleão, with accusations exchanged and fingers pointed.

Ezabella spoke again and said that the vote had “lost its purpose.” Shortly afterward, the voting process resumed.

After the result was announced, Ademir Benedito again protested against sending the base text to the AG, arguing that the measure would be irregular and suggesting that the decision be submitted to the plenary. Pantaleão, however, rejected the request.

Pantaleão also stated that, in more than one set of minutes, the Council recognized the need for changes to the bylaws, maintaining that the requirement set out in Article 45 had already been met.

Former financial director Rozallah Santoro, a three-year councilor, also asked to speak and argued that the General Assembly should vote only on incorporating the highlights approved by the CD into the current bylaws.

Tuma, in turn, argued that the councilors had already approved the need for a bylaw change, legitimizing the calling of the Assembly under the terms conducted by Pantaleão. The meeting ended after just over an hour.

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