Tuma rejects suspension, says he remains Corinthians Council president | OneFootball

The president of Corinthians’ Deliberative Council, Romeu Tuma Júnior, released an official statement on Tuesday afternoon (24) and said he does not recognize the legal validity of the extraordinary meeting held the previous night, in which council members approved his temporary removal from office. In the document, the official argues that the meeting was held with irregularities in its convening and in the conduct of the proceedings, in violation of the club’s bylaws. According to Tuma, the meeting contained “relevant defects” that completely compromised the legality of the procedure. He says the process set out in the internal rules was not observed from the moment of the call and that, during the session, there was a formal interruption of the proceedings, followed by their resumption by people who, according to him, had no authority to conduct the meeting, which would invalidate any legal effect arising from the vote.

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Tuma also reported that the meeting was marked by turmoil, including verbal attacks against members of the presiding board, which, in his view, further reinforces the irregularity of the process. In light of this, the official declared that he does not consider legitimate any decision that imposes restrictions on the exercise of the presidency of the Deliberative Council.

In the statement, the head of the body said he will remain in office and continue carrying out institutional acts as normal until there is a valid court decision or any internal procedure that strictly follows the procedures set out in the bylaws. He stressed that he has always guided his actions by compliance with the club’s rules and that he will not leave the position without a formal determination within legal parameters.

Finally, Tuma said he remains committed to compliance with the bylaws, legal certainty, and Corinthians’ institutional stability, amid an internal political crisis that intensified after the calling of an extraordinary meeting of the Deliberative Council by president Osmar Stabile.

Still on Monday night (23), after the Council’s vote, the body’s vice president Leonardo Pantaleão, who also chairs the club’s Ethics and Discipline Committee, expressed himself along the same lines and said that the effectiveness of the resolution depends on verification of the meeting’s legal regularity.

In a statement, Pantaleão said there was an expression of will by council members during the meeting, but stressed that the legal effects of any decision presuppose the validity of the act that gave rise to it, a circumstance which, according to him, still raises relevant discussions from the standpoint of the bylaws. The official added that, even if any formal defect in the call is disregarded, questions remain about the conduct of the proceedings throughout the session, which would recommend caution before assigning effectiveness to the resolutions passed.

The vice president also stated that, as long as there is no legal recognition of the validity of the meeting, there is no formal change in the presidency of the Deliberative Council, which is why any assumption of the role would not occur automatically. Lastly, he emphasized that institutional acts must be carried out in strict compliance with the bylaws until there is a definitive verification of the procedure’s conformity.

Read, in full, the official statement from the president of Corinthians’ Deliberative Council:

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