Stabile calls meeting to oust Tuma, council president cries foul | OneFootball

The president of Corinthians, Osmar Stabile, published a notice on the evening of last Wednesday (18) calling for an extraordinary meeting of the Deliberative Council (CD) on March 23, with the aim of deliberating on the provisional removal of the council's president, Romeu Tuma Jr. The news was reported by journalist Pedro Ramiro.

The call, however, has become the subject of internal questioning for possible non-compliance with the club's Statute and Internal Regulations. According to the document, the meeting is scheduled to take place in the club's theater at 6 PM on the first call and 7 PM on the second call. The main item on the agenda is the vote on the provisional removal of Tuma from the position of president of the Deliberative Council, in addition to the generic item "Various".

Photo: Henrique Vigliotti/Central do Timão

In the notice, the board justifies the call based on the need to preserve the integrity of the ongoing disciplinary procedure, ensure the freedom of witness testimony, guarantee the serenity of the instruction, maintain the trust of counselors and witnesses, safeguard the club's institutional image, and regularize the statutory reform procedure.

The text also cites possible infractions to the Statute and Internal Regulations, mentioning article 27, item "d", and article 28, as well as provisions of articles 3, 6, item XIII, 18, and 30 of the regulations.

Direct call by the board is contested

Despite the justification presented, the call made directly by president Osmar Stabile is considered illegitimate and formally irregular by counselors interviewed by the report, who point out that the procedure provided in the Statute for extraordinary meetings of the Deliberative Council was not observed.

Article 82 of the Statute establishes that the Deliberative Council must be convened by its president, even if the meeting is requested by other club authorities, such as the board president, the CORI president, the Fiscal Council, or at least 50 counselors. In these cases, the rule determines that the CD president has up to 30 days to make the call after receiving the formal request.

Thus, although there is provision for the board president to request an extraordinary meeting, the Statute provides that the formal call must be made by the president of the Deliberative Council, a position currently held by Romeu Tuma Jr., which raises doubts about the validity of the published notice.

Disciplinary process is in preliminary phase

Another point questioned is the fact that the removal is being considered before the conclusion of the disciplinary procedure that is underway in the Ethics Committee. The process was initiated by the initiative of the board president himself, but, according to Central do Timão's investigation, it is still in the preliminary phase and Tuma has not been formally notified of the instruction.

Contacted by the report to comment on the case, Leonardo Pantaleão, president of the Ethics and Discipline Committee, sent an official note stating that he had no prior knowledge of the call and pointed out a formal irregularity in the notice published by the board.

According to him, the Statute clearly assigns the president of the Deliberative Council the competence to convene meetings of the body, even if there is a request from other club powers, and non-compliance with this procedure compromises the validity of any deliberation.

Pantaleão also declared that, given the original flaw, he does not consider it legally appropriate to register presence in a meeting called under these terms, emphasizing that compliance with statutory norms is indispensable for the preservation of legal security and institutional stability.

There is also controversy regarding the very possibility of precautionary removal of a counselor based on the provisions cited in the notice. The mentioned articles deal with rules applicable to members in general, not specifically to members of the Deliberative Council, an interpretation that had already been raised in a previous episode involving an attempt to remove Tuma on similar grounds.

On that occasion, allies of the deposed president Augusto Melo even argued for the removal of Osmar Stabile from the interim presidency of Corinthians based on an alleged removal of Tuma, a hypothesis that did not materialize. The events occurred on May 31, 2025, and resulted in the initiation of disciplinary procedures before the club's Ethics Committee against all those involved in the episode.

Tuma releases statement and accuses "legally void" and "coup" act

After the publication of the notice, the president of the Deliberative Council released an official statement claiming that the call is illegal and directly violates the club's Statute.

In the communication, Romeu Tuma Jr. says he received the information "with immense indignation" and claims he was not notified nor assured the right to a defense in the disciplinary procedure cited as the basis for the removal.

"The initiative blatantly violates article 82, item II, of the Social Statute, which establishes a clear procedure for calling extraordinary meetings of the Deliberative Council (...) It is, therefore, a legally void act, institutionally reckless, and a betrayal of the Statute," he declared.

Tuma also criticizes the fact that the measure was taken before the conclusion of the analysis by the Ethics Committee and accuses the board president of concentrating decisions that, according to him, should be made by different club bodies.

"The president believes that he alone has the competence to file a complaint against me, to deliberate on the veracity of the evidence, to define the urgency of the removal, to order the publication of a notice, to judge impediment, and even to decide who will preside over the meeting. All on his own, without being accountable to anyone," he stated.

The leader further declared that the call throws the club into another institutional crisis and suggested that the initiative is related to the statutory reform process, whose General Assembly is called for April 18.

Statutory reform and political tension at Parque São Jorge

The call occurs amid a climate of strong political tension at Corinthians, which is simultaneously discussing statutory changes, internal investigations, and disciplinary procedures involving leaders.

The atmosphere intensified in the political backstage of Parque São Jorge during the Council meeting held on the 9th, which was to vote on the club's statutory reform project. On that occasion, Osmar Stabile took the floor and made several accusations against Tuma, citing alleged threats from the CD president and attempts to interfere in management through requests sent to the board, according to the president himself.

Stabile's statement provoked widespread turmoil in the plenary, and the meeting was adjourned without the project being voted on. Invoking article 45 of the Statute, Tuma then ordered the reform to be sent directly to the General Assembly, called for April 14. In the same week, Osmar Stabile filed the request for Tuma's removal from office.

Behind the scenes, the assessment is that the attempt to anticipate the vote on the removal before any statement from the Ethics Committee could generate legal challenges and even take the case to the Judiciary.

Read the full official statement released by the president of the Deliberative Council:

I receive with immense indignation the communication that the Executive Board of Sport Club Corinthians Paulista, in an act flagrantly contrary to the club's current Statute, issued a call for an extraordinary meeting of the Deliberative Council with the aim of removing me from office, without having been notified and without any established defense.

It is astonishing — though not surprising — that the president of Corinthians, himself a victim of a serious attempt at institutional rupture on May 31, 2025, marked by the invasion of his office and the removal of documents, as he himself stated, now acts as the protagonist of a maneuver of unequivocal coup character.

The initiative blatantly violates Article 82, item II, of the Social Statute, which establishes a clear procedure for calling extraordinary meetings of the Deliberative Council, through a formal request directed to the Council Presidency and with due observance of deadlines. It is, therefore, a legally void act, institutionally reckless, and a betrayal of the statute, for which there is no possibility of it taking place (in a legal environment).

It is despicable for the president to disrespect even the Ethics Committee of the Deliberative Council, legitimately elected to act in cases involving the investigation of statutory infractions allegedly committed by leaders and Counselors.

The president believes that he alone has the competence to file a complaint against me, who presides over the body that is obliged to supervise him, to deliberate on the veracity and severity of the evidence he himself presented, to define that there is urgency for my removal, to order the publication of a notice scheduling a meeting to preliminarily remove me, to judge me as impeded to preside over such a meeting, and even to define who should preside over it. All on his own, without being accountable to anyone. (Especially strange because, not so long ago, Osmar Stabile, then vice-president, publicly refuted another less aggressive but equally anti-statutory attempt that sought my removal.)

Such conduct throws Corinthians into yet another institutional crisis and clearly reveals a deliberate strategy not only of obstruction to the advancement of the Statutory Reform — an agenda widely debated over months and whose General Assembly of members is called for the next April 18 — but also of evasion of responsibilities and refusal to be accountable to the club's highest supervisory body, which is the Deliberative Council, as the president himself made explicit in the last Council meeting, in his personal statement.

Also see the position of the president of the Ethics and Discipline Committee of the Deliberative Council:

I was surprised by the call in question, which I receive with due institutional respect both to the President of the Board and to the President of the Deliberative Council.

It should be noted that such a call did not have, even tangentially, my knowledge or consent, having been entirely unknown to me until then, both its intention and any definition of the agenda.

From a technical-legal perspective, there is a formal flaw in the origin of the call. The Social Statute is clear in assigning, in its art. 82, item II, sub-item ‘b’, the exclusive competence to the President of the Deliberative Council to convene the collegiate, even if there is a request from other legitimate bodies.

It is a rule of competence of mandatory observance, whose bypass compromises the legitimacy of any deliberations eventually formalized in the context of a meeting thus constituted.

In light of this situation, and with the serenity that the moment requires, it does not seem legally appropriate, as Vice-President of the Deliberative Council, to register presence in a meeting whose call is compromised from its inception.

I regret the moment experienced by the club and reaffirm that respect for statutory norms is an indispensable prerequisite for the preservation of legal security and institutional stability.

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