Ednaldo Rodrigues is removed from the presidency of the CBF

Justice

TJ-RJ determines new elections to be held within 30 days

Rio de Janeiro – RJ) – The Court of Justice of Rio de Janeiro (TJ-RJ) decided to remove director Ednaldo Rodrigues from the position of president of the Brazilian Football Confederation (CBF). Furthermore, the court reported this Thursday (7) that “the institution will have to hold a new election within 30 days and, until then, the president of the Superior Court of Sports Justice [STJD] will be responsible for the administrative routine of the CBF”. Ednaldo still has an appeal.

The justification for this decision was the fact that the 21st Chamber of Private Law of the TJ-RJ unanimously ruled that the Public Civil Action filed by the Public Ministry (MP) against elections that had been held irregularly by the CBF in 2017 was extinguished. this Public Civil Action that the highest entity of Brazilian football agreed to sign a Conduct Adjustment Term (TAC) in 2022, which, among other things, established the holding of a new election, in which Ednaldo Rodrigues emerged victorious.

The decision to remove Ednaldo Rodrigues from the CBF was taken in response to a request from former vice-presidents of the entity who lost their positions under the 2022 TAC. Now, in this Thursday’s decision, the TJ-RJ states that the TAC signed between the MP and the CBF is illegal.

Historic

In the 2017 public civil action, the MP maintains that the CBF carried out a “maneuver” to approve a new statute at the assembly on March 23 of that year, “without respecting the mandatory call for representatives of Series A clubs”, which would be in disagreement with the Pelé Law. The statute voted, according to the Public Ministry of Rio de Janeiro, would have “different criteria for valuing votes, which prevents clubs from constituting a majority in elections”.

The 27 federations, the only ones to participate in that meeting, had their votes tripled, reaching 81 votes together. The 20 clubs in the first division (weight two) and the 20 in the second division (weight one) would only reach 60 votes. In 2018, based on the statute approved in March, Rogério Caboclo was elected president of the CBF, in an election questioned by the MP-RJ. The director, however, was permanently suspended from his position on February 24, 2022, due to accusations of sexual harassment that had already removed him in September 2021.

On February 25, 2022, judge Mário Cunha Olinto Filho himself suspended the process that investigates the 2018 election, responding to a request from the CBF and the Public Ministry of Rio de Janeiro. According to the TJ-RJ, the request was filed after the Superior Court of Justice (STJ) ordered intervention in the entity, which led the International Football Federation (Fifa) to request “a detailed legal explanation about the specific consequences of the aforementioned decision” . FIFA establishes that affiliated associations must be managed “independently and without undue influence from third parties”, under penalty of sanctions – such as exclusion from the World Cup.

*With information from Reuters news agency.

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