The feisty president of the Sibiu Exchange, Teodor Ancuţa took everyone by surprise yesterday, with the following statement made at a seminar about the "Rasdaq" market, organized by the Bucharest Stock Exchange:
"I want to assure you that in Sibiu, me and the other shareholders will vote for the merger as part of the General Shareholder Meeting at the end of April. I am having a discussion with Cristian Sima and Daniel Tepeş concerning the merger..."
The statement is surprising in three ways.
* SURPRISE No. 1: THEY ARE GETTING TOGETHER!
It is a surprise that Teodor Ancuţa "is having a discussion" with Cristian Sima, after last year"s failed "putsch".
On December 2nd, Cristian Sima, the head of "WBS România", and Alexandru Elian, of "Delta Valori Mobiliare" requested the revocation of the Board of Directors, with the obvious intention of replacing Teodor Ancuţa as president of the Sibiu Exchange, a position which he has held for sixteen years (while also being the founder), with Swiss banker Dario Colombo, known as a financier connected to Swiss bank "Sarazin".
"The putsch" failed in the meeting of the General Meeting of Shareholders of December 15th, when Ancuţa was reelected (and Sima was eliminated from the Board of Directors of Sibex), but it also sparked a state of hostility between the two, although, truth be said, they kept it concealed using civilized public statements (they deserve congratulations for it - it"s something that rarely happens!).
"It"s alright, I"ll keep going forward, maybe we will summon a new General Meeting of Shareholders in the near future...", Sima said at the time, alluding perhaps to his hope that he would be able to gather more votes before attempting a new coup.
So, his intention to overthrow Ancuţa still stands.
So a meeting to in order to "have a discussion" between Ancuţa and Si
