RIO de Janeiro, RJ (folhapress)-After completing the changes in Petrobras ‘ Board of Directors, the government now works to try to renew part of the company’s board of directors, whose representatives were elected in 2018 for two-year mandates. Two vacancies are already open after waivers announced last week, but the goal is to get more seats.
Responsible for approving strategic decisions and supervising the management of the company, the board of Petrobras has eleven chairs, one of them occupied by the President of the company, Roberto Castello Branco.
It was fully refurbished at the beginning of Dilma Rouisseff’s second term, which replaced ministers and other government representatives with names recognized by the market, including Castello Branco himself.
Most of the current composition was elected in shareholders ‘ meeting in April 2018 and could therefore stay in the company until 2020. The government, however, already warned that some of them would resign the last collegiate president, Luiz Nelson Guedes Carvalho, and lawyer Francisco Petros already did so at the beginning of the year.
The main target would now be the naval engineer Segen Estefen, professor of the UFRJ appointed still in the Dilma government. The goal is to appoint executives more aligned with current management, which talks about accelerating asset sales to further focus on pre-salt activities.
In addition to Estfen, the representatives of the Union in the Council are currently Jerônimo Antunes (interim president since the resignation of Carvalho), Ana Lúcia poças Zambelli, Clarissa de Araújo Lins and Castello Branco himself. Two others are nominated by minority and a third, by workers.
The term of the mandates was extended to two years from 2016, making it difficult to renew the collegiate by the elected government. Until then, it was only a year. The company’s Statute predicts that 20% of the collegiate should be renewed every four years.
The new management of Petrobras has already completed the process of renewal of the board, with the substitution of four of the seven directors. Three of the destitute-Solange Guedes, Hugo repsold and Jorge Celestino-were also remnants of the Dilma government. The fourth, Nelson Silva, had already been named in the fearing government.
Castello Branco indicated for the direction Carlos Alberto Pereira Oliveira (Exploration and production), Lauro Cotta (strategy), Rudimar Lorenzatto (development of production and technology) and Anelise Quintão (refining and gas). The latter was responsible for touching the company’s disinvestment program and its nomination is seen as a sign that the reduction in the participation of the State in both segments will be accelerated.
Petrobras has not yet commented on the subject.
The president of the State also indicated close advisors, such as Professor Luciano de Castro, who also participated in the transition group of the Bolsonaro government, and the diplomat Roberto Ardhengy, who leaves a post of itamaraty in new York to take care of the leadership of Cabinet of Castello Branco.
He also appointed the employee of the state-owned Carlos Victor Guerra Nagem for the executive management of security and corporate intelligence. Under the nickname Captain Victor, he was a candidate twice in public office in Paraná, having received support from Bolsonaro, who called him “private friend”.
Without having ever held a position of trust in the state, Nagem was taken to the second level in the company’s hierarchy, with a salary of about R $50,000. In social networks, Bolsonaro has been defending the nomination with a series of demonstrations since the fifth night (10).
In the last comment on the topic, on Friday night (11), the president showed a photograph of the former manager, Regina de Luca, in a PT event. “Captain Nagem will occupy the position of the Petitist Regina Miki in the head of security,” he wrote.
Petrobras argues that the curriculum of the nominee is appropriate to the position. The appointment, however, still depends on the approval of the internal organs of control.
Source: www.yahoo.com.br
