São Paulo court rejects bid by Corinthians lifetime councillors to halt assembly | OneFootball

A São Paulo court has rejected an injunction from three lifetime Corinthians councillors seeking to suspend the 20 June General Assembly on statute reform.

According to Meu Timao, judge Rafael Viotti Schlobach of the third Civil Court in Tatuapé upheld the call issued by acting Deliberative Council president Leonardo Pantaleão for members at Parque São Jorge to vote on the commission’s project, after councillors examined the base text and highlights in April and May.

The action was brought by Ademir de Carvalho Benedito, Guilherme Gonçalves Strenger and Alexandre Husni, who are also Cori members and former presidents of the Deliberative Council. They argued the proposal was not validly formed, said the November 2025 recognition of the need for reform was too generic, and claimed the base text was rejected by Cori and the Council, leaving no valid object for the Assembly.

They further contended that highlights and amendments could not stand without the base text and that the Assembly lacked powers to review Council decisions. Schlobach denied the injunction, saying the evidence and his earlier ruling supported holding the Assembly, and reaffirmed that the Assembly is the club’s supreme body with exclusive authority over statute changes under article 59 of the Civil Code, with the prior requirement met in November 2025.

He added that disagreements in intermediary bodies do not block the members’ sovereign vote, and that Pantaleão has autonomous powers under article 47 of the club statute to convene assemblies, irrespective of majority backing.

The case first went to the fifth Civil Court, but judge Renan Augusto Jacó Mota reassigned it to the third under article 55 of the Civil Procedure Code to avoid conflicting rulings on the same call.

The dispute has run since early in the year. An earlier Assembly was halted in April after a suit by councillor Felipe Ezabella, the matter returned internally, and Pantaleão set a new vote for 20 June.

Members aligned to Voz Corinthiana and Família Corinthians then secured an injunction validating the call. Ezabella later sought to limit the agenda to Council-approved highlights, excluding the base text, but the court refused, dismissed his clarification motion and converted the matter into a contentious action, adding him as a defendant.

In a separate ruling, judge Guilherme Augusto de Oliveira Barna guaranteed voting rights to all members registered by 8 May, including those with under five years’ membership. As it stands, the Assembly remains in Pantaleão’s original format, with members to decide on the base text and approved highlights.

Source: Meu Timao