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6 » LENSES February 2019 | AutoData Bruno de Oliveira and Caio Bednarski collaborated Disclosure/MBB ANFAVEA’S ELECTION Yes, it was a surprise the solution adopted for the election of the new board of directors in Anfavea and Sinfavea, period 2019-2022: both still unfinished slates were dissolved and a tertius created to, in theory, avoid the principle that impaired the negotiation, which was the rotation regarding the two main executive board positions, president and the first vice-president, by representatives of only five associated companies and leaving newcommers’ professionals out of the chair dispute and also those older ones such as Toyota, Scania, Volvo, companies of agricultural machinery et caterva who little said no to the rule of the game. The second surprise went a little further: the internal dissentions of the entity were rarely made public - dissentions that, coupled with the chemistry of new times, hold the potential to generate truly unexpected solutions this time. NOT THE FIRST ONE A director of the institutional area at a respected automaker (an old one) was seen entering the ground area of Sao Paulo State Treasury at a fast pace, on Rangel Pestana Avenue, the one that provides access to the elevators. Whoever saw it said that he was not the first one that day, always pressing the very same elevator button... ANFAVEA’S ELECTION 2 Finally, after a lot of excitement and debate, internally and mainly outside the walls of the mansion on Indianopolis Avenue, both slate heads, Rogelio Golfarb, of Ford, ex- president with a mandate from 2004 to 2007 and Ricardo Martins, of Hyundai, which few people know, gathered behind closed doors with their vice presidential candidates, Luiz Carlos Moraes of Mercedes- Benz and Fabrício Biondo of PSA Group. And there would have been decided, by direct indication of Golfarb, and after much more than a chat, that Moraes would head the new slate and Biondo would be his first vice president. Everything in the name of the best interests of the group’s associates and the sector. None of them told me about what happened, and there is a non-manifestation pact from the Anfavean people - which is understandable. Golfarb, whom I had never hidden my sympathies about his second term, joined the others in the pact. But, as always happens, there are those who know everything and confidences become bar talk.