Circulate, there is not much to see. Whereas the smell of a marriage between Fiat-Chrysler and Renault sometimes remains perceptible in the air Jean-Dominique Senard said Tuesday in Yokohama, on the sidelines of the Nissan General Assembly, that there was nothing on the table at the moment.
“I know we hear a lot, but today there is no discussion,” said the president of Losange to some journalists present in Yokohama. I told the shareholders that the file was at a standstill and that I regretted it, “continued Carlos Ghosn’s successor, adding that the idea of resuming negotiations, by adding Nissan to the loop, was” a hypothetical hypothesis “.
Operation “remarkable”
Jean-Dominique Senard had defended the failed project of the alliance before the shareholders of Renault , a fortnight ago, evoking a “remarkable” operation despite doubts about its balance and its interest in France and Japan.
Regarding Nissan, who did not want to validate the Franco-Italian deal and who was upset not to have been put in the scent of the exchanges with John Elkann, Jean-Dominique Senard is convinced that the maneuver could be “positive for the alliance and for Nissan, in particular in the United States”.
If he did not share the debates with Fiat-Chrysler with his Japanese partner, it is “at no time” to “harm or be aggressive towards the alliance”, but because he “could not inform them,” he defends. “There were confidentiality agreements with FCA. It happened very quickly. It was in about ten days that this took this turn, hence the necessary confidentiality. We can not discuss this in the street! “Exclaims the French leader. On the merits, “JDS” says to understand the reserved attitude of the Japanese manufacturer. “They said they abstained to vote better afterwards. It’s a very responsible attitude, “he says.