Corinthians board’s vote to remove Tuma ruled invalid by council presidency | OneFootball

The presidency of the Corinthians Deliberative Council released, this Friday (20th), an official statement declaring that the notice of convocation published by the club's board for an extraordinary meeting of the body was issued in disagreement with the Statute and, therefore, has no legal validity. The document is signed by the president of the Council, Romeu Tuma Jr., and the vice-president of the board, Leonardo Pantaleão, who also chairs the Ethics and Discipline Committee.

According to the statement, the convocation was carried out directly by the president of the board, Osmar Stabile, a procedure that, according to the presidency of the DC, does not follow the process outlined in article 82, section II, item “b” of the club’s Statute. The text states that the act was carried out by an authority without the competence to call a meeting of the oversight body, which would constitute a formal irregularity.

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Still according to the note, acts performed by an agent considered incompetent do not produce legal effects, which is why any meeting based on this convocation could not be recognized as valid. The document maintains that, in light of this statutory interpretation, there is no regularly constituted session of the Deliberative Council scheduled for the coming days.

The presidency of the body also informed that the Council continues to operate normally, together with the Ethics Committee, in the exercise of its institutional duties, despite the disagreement regarding the convocation.

In the same statement, it was reiterated that the next meeting considered regular by the board already has a notice published and is scheduled for April 27, 2026. On that occasion, a vote is scheduled on the board’s accounts for the 2025 fiscal year, accompanied by the respective technical reports, as determined by the club’s Statute.

The statement comes amid a new institutional impasse between the board and the Deliberative Council, related to the attempt to call an extraordinary meeting to address disciplinary matters within the club, which has generated internal questions about competence, statutory procedure, and the validity of administrative acts.

Request for removal, board notice, and questions about the convocation

On March 11, Osmar Stabile filed a request with the club’s Ethics and Discipline Committee seeking the precautionary removal of Romeu Tuma Júnior from the presidency of the Council, alleging interference in management through the submission of dozens of requests, and an alleged threat by the Council president during an interaction at the club’s pizzeria. The procedure is in a preliminary phase and Tuma has not yet been formally notified.

A week later, on the evening of last Wednesday (18th), Stabile published a notice calling an extraordinary meeting of the DC with the aim of deliberating on Tuma’s precautionary removal. In the document, the board justified the measure by stating that the convocation would be necessary to preserve the integrity of the ongoing disciplinary procedure, guarantee the freedom of witness statements, ensure the calmness of the proceedings, safeguard the club’s institutional image, and allow the regular processing of the statutory reform process.

The publication of the notice began to be questioned internally for possible non-compliance with club rules. The argument presented by council members and members of internal bodies is that the procedure outlined in the Statute was not followed. Article 82 establishes that the convocation of the Deliberative Council must be made by its president, even when the meeting is requested by the president of the board, by CORI, by the Fiscal Council, or by at least 50 council members.

In these cases, it is up to the president of the Council to formally make the convocation within a period of up to 30 days. In this case, the board published the notice directly in less than a week, calling a meeting to deliberate on the removal of the board’s own president.

The measure generated reactions from members, political groups within the club, the president of the Ethics and Discipline Committee, the São Paulo Public Prosecutor’s Office, as well as the formal position of the president of the Deliberative Council himself, which resulted in the statement released this Friday.

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