Corinthians council chief pushes statute reform, gets Cori backing | OneFootball

The proposal to overhaul Corinthians’ Bylaws has once again stirred the club’s political backstage. In recent days, Romeu Tuma Júnior, president of the Deliberative Council (CD), and Miguel Marques e Silva, who heads the Advisory Council (Cori), met to discuss alternatives and try to bring the positions of the two bodies responsible for Timão’s internal oversight closer together.

The meeting aimed to find common ground for continuing the process of changing the document. The information was first published by TMC. After the meeting, Tuma Júnior sent the president of Cori a new version of the proposed bylaw reform. The text was drafted following a request from the Deliberative Council’s Bylaw Reform Committee.

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The group responsible for drafting it is made up of council members Claudia Carlos de Oliveira, Corinto Baldoino Parreira e Costa, Dalton Gioia, Edson Aparecido Geanelli, and Gerson Leme.

The intention now is to combine the proposals into a single document that also has the approval of the Advisory Council. The strategy seeks to correct the issue pointed out by the courts and allow the process, which was halted by an injunction, to resume.

The court decision had suspended the General Assembly of members, initially scheduled for June 20. On that occasion, members would vote to approve or reject the proposed changes to Corinthians’ Bylaws.

The suspension came after an interlocutory appeal filed by lifetime council members Ademir de Carvalho Benedito, Alexandre Husni, and Guilherme Gonçalves Strenger. A few days before the vote, appellate judge Mauricio Campos da Silva Velho, from the 4th Private Law Chamber of the São Paulo Court of Justice, granted urgent relief in the case.

In the ruling, the judge pointed to “relevant indications of noncompliance with procedural rules” established by the club’s own Bylaws. One of the main points raised by the courts involves Article 97, item “m.” The provision states that it is up to the Advisory Council to present proposals for bylaw amendments to the Deliberative Council.

Because of this, the assessment within Corinthians is that a possible approval of the new version by Cori could eliminate the irregularity identified in the court ruling. From there, the procedure could be restarted from the beginning. The new process would include a fresh review and vote on the text in the Deliberative Council plenary and, later, the holding of a General Assembly with the members.

Behind the scenes, the expectation is to complete all these stages by September. That way, the club could still put the new Bylaws into effect before the elections for the board and the Deliberative Council, scheduled for November.

The new proposal was organized into four main blocks. The first brings together the articles that will not undergo any changes and will remain exactly as they are currently written. The second group consists of changes that have already been approved by the Deliberative Council but are still awaiting approval by the General Assembly to officially take effect. The third part focuses on the changes suggested by the Reform Committee in order to adapt the Bylaws to the General Sports Law (LGE).

The fourth and final block brings together proposals that still need to be put to a vote, but which were developed based on common understandings identified during public hearings held with the participation of council members, members, and fans. In addition to the four-part division, the new document also identifies provisions that are no longer in effect through the label “Revoked.”

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