Criminal lawyer Leonardo Sica, 50, assumed this Tuesday (7) the presidency of , the largest section in the country. The ceremony took place around 2pm at the entity’s headquarters, in the central region of the capital of São Paulo.
. The ticket he ran for obtained 52.48% of the votes, overtaking former president of the section Caio Augusto Silva dos Santos, his main opponent, who came in second place with 21.85%.
The new president will command the institution in the state from 2025 to 2027. He succeeds in the position who he was deputy in the previous term. Vanzolini was elected to the Federal Council in November on Sica’s ticket.
the latter as a candidate for president and she as vice-president, without success. . With a flag opposing re-election, .
The election in São Paulo was representative of the national scenario. The election, as in other sections of the , was marked by the . Furthermore, there was a man elected president and a woman, along the lines of what was observed across the country.
Daniela Magalhães (vice-president), Adriana Galvão (general secretary), Viviane Scrivani (deputy general secretary), Alexandre de Sá Domingues (director-treasurer) and Diva Zitto (president of the Lawyers Assistance Fund) also took on the positions. .
Among the proposals are the defense of a dialogue on the limits of the , the setting of deadlines for the ministers’ mandates, the implementation of and the creation of an entrepreneurship nucleus.
Graduated in law from the University of São Paulo, Sica has a master’s and doctorate in criminal law from the same institution. He was also a member of the National Prerogatives Commission of the OAB and president of the AASP (Association of Lawyers) between 2015 and 2016.
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The largest section in the country, OAB-SP has around 384 thousand registered lawyers. In Brazil, there are just over 1.4 million
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In 2024, the budget of the São Paulo entity was R$535.6 thousand. When contacted, OAB Nacional did not inform its most recent budget
