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7 AutoData | February 2019 ANFAVEA’S ELECTION 3 It does not seem useful to me at the moment, there is not so much space either, to turn everything upside down, but it is reasonable to deal with some general ideas. The first of them is the effort spent in maintaining the minimum unit of thought and action in the Anfavean group, a concern since its foundation in 1956, rarely broken. Showing cohesion, understanding, strength and knowledge accumulated. The dispute led participants to exchange ideas, debate, the reasons for pros and cons regarding the rotation, to workshops for the best comprehension. But successive entity’s boards, this century, have left open the new representative reality question and the criticism to the rotation - including the current one -, and the current situation is its responsibility. Take a look at Fiesp (Federation of Industries of the State of Sao Paulo), Anfaveans: do you want an Anfavea as dispensable, anachronistic, obsolete as Fiesp today? ANFAVEA’S ELECTION 4 Another general idea is the quality of the representatives that the associate companies liberate to represent them - not exactly their number one team, because this is expensive. One of the vice presidents made this observation: “My impression, attending board meetings in recent years, is that I was surrounded by some professionals with very little appreciation for vehicles, for the automotive industry. For people who know little about that business and who make no effort to learn. It looks like they are waiting for a new job there. Everything very different from times of Beer, Chiaparini, Scheuer... and even Mendonça.” ANFAVEA’S ELECTION 5 And there is the ardent question regarding the victory of, let’s say, the rebels, who would have broken the backbone of the polarized system that they were fighting, the rotation power from FCA, Ford, General Motors, Mercedes-Benz and Volkswagen. It is a debatable thesis since there is always someone who reminds us that Golfarb – who is not silly at all –, besides choosing president and vice president, he made president the one who would be his obvious successor exactly in the old system. In other words: will it be the case to wait for the next election, in another three years, to define winners and losers, something that, until then, may not be important at all? ANFAVEA’S ELECTION 6 And why it may not be important at all? Because the automotive world, as it receives the strong impacts of new technologies proposed to change the habitual way that people move, is also under the very strong pressure of its own business reinvention and the system’s greed, that already fiercely disputes every possible profit crumb – and, in this sense, is certainly worthwhile to pay attention to the history and the novel alliance agreement of Ford and Volkswagen, which I believe that has absolutely unsuspected intentions until now. In other words: it is a story that has not yet ended so it is possible to be written - with many eye colors and visions. ANFAVEA’S ELECTION 7 Maybe this has been another opportunity missed. SINDIPEÇAS’S ELECTION In Sindipeças, the election to choose its (and of Abipeças) new board will have single slates, projecting the re-election of Dan Ioschpe. On Wednesday, February 13th.