Cori calls to block statute reform, collective and Tuma respond | OneFootball

Friday (6) was marked by a series of public demonstrations that intensified the disagreements surrounding the proposal to reform the Corinthians Statute. Throughout the day, fans, statutory bodies, and the president of the Deliberative Council (CD) himself expressed their positions on the project that will be voted on next Monday (9).

The events included the confirmation of the adoption of open and nominal voting at the meeting that will vote on the proposal, the revelation that the Advisory Council (Cori) recommended the rejection of the final text of the reform, a statement from the collective Voz Corinthiana criticizing the position of the body, and finally, the response from the CD president Romeu Tuma Júnior to the document sent by Cori.

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Collective praises open voting and warns of backstage maneuvers

The first public stance of the day came from the Voz Corinthiana Collective, which released a note claiming to have achieved a “fundamental victory” after the confirmation that the voting on the statutory reform will be conducted through open and nominal voting in the Deliberative Council.

According to the group, the confirmation came after a formal response from the president of the body to a request submitted by the collective. In the movement's assessment, the decision ensures greater transparency in the process.

Despite this, the collective expressed concern over information about backstage maneuvers seeking to hinder the voting on the reform. In the note, the group cites statements attributed to Alexandre Husni, a permanent member of Cori, who allegedly expressed the intention to block the approval of the new statute.

“We express profound indignation with the recent maneuvers to hinder the modernization of the club. We received with extreme concern the news that the former president of the Deliberative Council, Alexandre Husni, allegedly declared his political group's intention to ‘block the statute reform’. It is symptomatic that this threat comes from someone who shone by his absence, not attending any of the ten public hearings held to discuss the issue with the members,” stated the collective.

The statement also mentions alleged messages shared on social media from a WhatsApp group linked to the Corinthians Advisory Council (Cori). In the screenshots, councilors would discuss the possibility of meetings and requests to postpone the voting to allow for a more thorough analysis of the text.

In the note, the collective refuted the claim that Cori was ignored during the reform drafting process, stating that the president of the body Miguel Marques e Silva participated in public hearings, as did other members of the board, including Paulo Pedro, Felipe Ezabella, and Caetano Blandini.

“Corinthians no longer has room for institutional setbacks. The modernization of the Statute is not a whim; it is a matter of survival. We will not accept that the future of Corinthians is, once again, hijacked by those who prioritize maintaining privileges and political control over the club. Those who abstained when called to debate cannot now dictate the club's directions in closed meetings,” concluded the collective.

Cori recommends rejection of the new statute

Also on Friday, the Central do Timão revealed the content of the decision made by Cori in an extraordinary meeting held last Thursday (5). Unanimously, the body decided to recommend the rejection of the entire text of the statutory reform.

The guidance developed during the meeting suggests that the Deliberative Council should not approve a complete new statute at this time. Instead, Cori advocates for specific changes to the currently effective statute, focusing on topics considered priorities by the board.

Among the topics considered most sensitive by the body is the proposal to include the Fiel Torcedor vote in the club's decisions. On this point, Cori decided that the issue should be submitted directly to the General Assembly of members and, if approved, later incorporated into the current statute.

The body also indicated other topics that could be subject to specific revision, such as the electoral system of the Deliberative Council, the number of elected and lifetime councilors, the minimum association time to acquire voting rights, and changes in the chapter regarding the Fiscal Council, specifically in articles 100, 100-A, 101, 102, and 102-A.

New note from the collective criticizes Cori's position

Cori's recommendation prompted a second statement from the Voz Corinthiana Collective throughout the day. In a new public note, the group classified the body's document as an attempt to hinder the voting on the reform in its entirety.

The collective stated that the Advisory Council's position emerged after the confirmation that the voting would be open and nominal. The statement also contested the claim of unanimity between Cori and the Fiscal Council in rejecting the reform text. In the group's assessment, there is a contradiction in this stance, as members of these bodies participated in the public hearings and discussions promoted by the CD throughout the process.

“The document claims a supposed ‘unanimity’ between CORI and the Fiscal Council to reject the final text of the Statutory Reform. Such a statement exposes a shameful contradiction: several members of these same bodies were seated at the Reform Commission table, participated in the hearings, debated commas, and helped build the text they now pretend not to know. Saying that the text ‘does not meet conditions’ now, at the last minute, is to confess that the previous participation was a farce or that the current decision is purely political. There is no third way,” says a section of the statement.

The note also criticized the suggestion that the voting be “fragmented,” analyzing only certain topics. For the collective, this alternative would represent an institutional setback and prevent the approval of provisions deemed fundamental for the modernization of the club's governance.

Among the points the group claims are threatened by the proposal for specific alteration are the adaptation of the statute to the General Sports Law, the patrimonial accountability of managers, the creation of an independent Ethics Council, fiscal responsibility mechanisms, compliance and governance structures, technical qualification rules for managers, and the prohibition of nepotism.

“CORI's proposal ignores the sense of urgency imposed by the club's financial and moral crisis. They treat modernization as a bureaucratic whim, when it is, in fact, a matter of survival,” pointed out the collective.

President of the Deliberative Council reacts to Cori and demands explanations

The sequence of positions culminated in the official response from the CD president to the document sent by the Advisory Council.

In the communication, addressed to the president of the body Miguel Marques and the secretary Paulo Pedro, Tuma stated that he became aware of the document's content through media publications even before receiving it officially, which he classified as “regrettable” and a sign of institutional disrespect to the Deliberative Council.

The leader also criticized the fact that he was not invited to the meeting that resulted in the drafting of the document, even though the topic involved exclusive attributions of the Deliberative Council. According to Tuma, it is strange that Cori only expressed itself now, after two years of debates and more than fifteen public hearings held to discuss the statutory reform project.

The CD president stated that he does not consider it reasonable to comply with the recommendation to discuss only some topics of the reform, without clear justification for the selection of the suggested points, and highlighted that the project was built with hundreds of contributions from councilors, members, and fans.

The leader also urgently requested the full minutes of the Cori meeting, the list of participants, and the audio of the meeting to understand the context of the decision. Finally, he informed that his response would be made public and shared with the press and others interested in the process.

The proposal to reform the statute will be submitted to the Deliberative Council's vote and subsequently to the General Assembly of Members, scheduled for April. In recent days, the topic has become a focal point for strong mobilization from different political groups and movements of members and fans. The debate involves disagreements over the content of the reform, the club's governance model, and the way members and fans participate in institutional decisions.

Check out the full response from the CD president to Cori:

Dear Drs. Honorable President Miguel Marques and Esteemed Secretary Paulo Pedro, good afternoon!

I acknowledge receipt of the attachment.

I clarify that I had already learned of the document's content through publications made by media outlets, before the time you sent it to me, which is regrettable and demonstrates the unmistakable disrespect of CORI, a body I have greatly esteemed, towards the Deliberative Council.

I also deeply regret not being invited to a meeting where the central theme seems to have been the exclusive attributions of the Deliberative Council. Furthermore, from the content of the document, I see and regret that CORI, even though it participated in the endless debates and the conclusion of the discussion on the matter, which occurred on 09/02, did not express itself in this way earlier and left it to do so only now, after exactly 2 (two) years of debates and more than 15 (fifteen) Public Hearings – which never happened in the centenary history of “our” beloved Corinthians –, on the eve of the historic voting of the Statute Reform which, given the hundreds of democratic contributions, including from CORI and Fiscal Council members, as well as all possible and imaginable actors, contributed to practically building a new Statute, encompassing everything modern in management systems, social control, legal control, and governance, including the LGE and the Financial Fair Play recently established by CBF.

What is strange, and several CORI members are aware, is that the deadline for submitting proposals has already ended. And this is public. In fact, in the last Public Hearing, reserved exclusively for Councilors, we addressed this when I informed that only on that date would new proposals be received, and some Councilors decided to propose opposition to the Fiel Torcedor vote, which ended up being included in the final draft and generated several criticisms towards me, even though I was not the author and even expressed opposition to this initiative at the time. After all, in November, our extraordinary meeting had practically closed the matter, only lacking the definition of the form.

Therefore, your honor, who was with me at the presidency table of the works, and several other CORI members, were aware of the deadline for new proposals, as those listed in the document, just as the Fiscal Council members were, which I can only attribute to a general memory lapse at yesterday's meeting. Certainly, if I had been invited, I would have reminded them to avoid this further controversy.

However, it is also very strange, the “guidance” to address only some topics in the voting, without any justification that justifies the “choice” of these pointed topics and neither justifies or substantiates all other “discarded” topics by some Councilors belonging to CORI to the detriment of the nearly three hundred that make up the Deliberative Council.

It does not seem reasonable to meet a demand from a few, as they could accuse me of acting in the interest of privileges and privileged, especially since thorny topics that were the subject of proposals from numerous other Councilors, Members, and Fans, through proposals made even in Public Hearings, as the Council itself unanimously decided with more than 200 (two hundred) members present on November 24, were excluded from your document as “unimportant”.

By the way, so that I can assess the context of your document, and so that there are no doubts about the intentions of this Board that I so esteem, and even by institutional duty, I urgently request the full Minutes of the Meeting that led to this document and the list of members and guests present, in addition to the audio so that this signatory can understand, as already said, the context and the plurality of the manifestation.

In the name of transparency and respect for CORI and the Fiscal Council, as bodies, and their members, as Councilors and work partners for our Club, I inform that the content of this email, as soon as it is sent to Your Honor, will be shared with the press and others interested in the voting of the SCCP Social Statute Reform, scheduled for next Monday (09/03), since as I learned from the media and have been charged for it, by duty of office I will express myself without any addition or divergence to what I am responding to you.

I take this opportunity to renew my respects and consideration.

Respectfully,

Romeu Tuma Junior

President of the Deliberative Council of Sport Club Corinthians Paulista

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