Corinthians lifetime councillors ask TJ-SP to suspend statute reform assembly | OneFootball

Corinthians’ General Assembly on 20 June to vote on statute reform faces a fresh legal challenge, with lifetime councillors Ademir Benedito, Guilherme Strenger and Alexandre Husni asking the TJ-SP to halt the meeting.

According to Meu Timao, the trio filed an interlocutory appeal on Friday seeking to suspend the convocation notice and to bar any new calls until a further ruling, under daily fine.

They argue a first-instance decision wrongly treated the November 2025 recognition of the need for reform as approval of a concrete proposal, which they say never existed. The councillors add there was no base text, draft or minute under discussion at that time.

The filing also contends that, under Article 97 of the current Statute, Cori alone should propose amendments, and that Cori rejected the base text before it reached the CD. They further claim the CD rejected the text on 29 April, yet the proposal still advanced to the Assembly.

The appellants say these are incurable defects and that the judge misapplied Civil Code Article 59 against Article 217 of the Federal Constitution on sporting autonomy. They request urgency to avoid later annulments and legal uncertainty.

The case rapporteur is judge Maurício Campos da Silva Velho, though the matter first goes to triage to verify procedural regularity and related cases. A decision will follow only after the file returns to the rapporteur.

The dispute has run since early in the year. An initial Assembly was quashed in April, the project then returned to internal bodies and Pantaleão called the new vote for 20 June. Courts later upheld the new convocation and a separate ruling granted voting rights to all members registered by 8 May, including those with under five years.

Source: Meu Timao