Brazil’s president delays pushing for new Vale CEO until next year: report (Reuters U.S. – November 6, 2016)

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Brazilian President Michel Temer will not push to replace the head of the nation’s largest mining company, Vale SA (VALE5.SA), until the current executive’s mandate expires in May, a local newspaper reported.

Temer has been seeking a replacement for Chief Executive Murilo Ferreira, who was the preferred choice of impeached former President Dilma Rousseff and is considered by Temer’s camp to be too close to the previous administration.

But the newspaper Folha de S.Paulo reported at the weekend, without citing sources, that Temer will not try to force Ferreira’s early exit after coming up against resistance from state pension funds that have seats on Vale’s board. Temer’s office did immediately responded to requests for comment and Vale said it would not comment on the report.

A person with direct knowledge of the situation told Reuters last month that Temer had met with the representative of an unnamed, major shareholder of Vale to discuss a potential change of command at the mining giant.

The same person, who was briefed on the discussion, said the company’s controlling shareholders would only agree to a change of leadership next year, when Ferreira’s term ends, and under a selection process conducted by an executive recruitment firm.

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