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Renault's promotion of its chief financial officer, Clotilde delbos, will make her the second most powerful female car executive after General Motors chief executive Mary Barra, Bloomberg reported. A few days ago, Renault's board of Directors voted to remove chief executive Thierry bollore in an attempt to end months of discord with its alliance partner car. Renault and Nissan have a 20-year alliance. But tensions between the two have worsened since the arrest of alliance leader Glenn last November. Nissan executives have long complained about their unequal partnership with Renault. Renault holds a 43% stake in Nissan, while Nissan holds 15%. In May, the failed merger of Renault and FCA brought the relationship between Renault and Nissan to a freezing point. Renault has been pushing for a full merger with Nissan, but it has been firmly rejected by Nissan. But in seeking to merge with Fiat Chrysler, Nissan again did not support it. Tensions between the two sides threatened the survival of the Renault Nissan Mitsubishi alliance. In order to turn a new page, Nissan also announced the appointment of a new chief executive officer: Makoto Uchida, senior vice president of the company, chairman of Nissan China Management Committee and President of the Company Limited, succeeded Hirohito nishigawa as CEO. The new CEO of Renault, delbose, joined Renault in 2012 and became CFO four years later. She is a member of Renault's orange group, which, led by its chairman, Jean Dominique senard, has pushed for a closer relationship between Renault and Nissan, or even a full merger of the two. But Nissan rejected Renault's idea in April to restart merger talks. The 52 year old has also played a number of roles in the Renault Nissan alliance partnership. She was in charge of management and performance in the Renault Nissan Alliance in 2014. She and sanard had previously worked for Pechiney, an aluminium company. She joined Pechiney in 1992 and has been promoted in various audit and finance related positions for the past 20 years. During this period, the metal company was acquired by Alcan, Tinto and Apollo global management. Sanard joined the company in 1996 and was appointed chief executive in 2003. As a result, the relationship between delbose and sanard is quite profound. Derbose will be assisted by two male deputies, Olivier murguet and Jose Vincent de Los mozos. Mr sanard's role will be extended to overseeing the stake in RCI bank. RCI bank is an auto joint venture between Renault, Samsung and other industrial and commercial enterprises. Mr Ghosn's arrest on suspicion of financial misconduct has exposed Nissan's poor corporate governance and pushed long simmering tensions between the two carmakers to boiling point. Bolore is seen as a legacy of the ghorn era, and the removal of bolore may help resolve the differences between the two sides, which will be a prerequisite for the resumption of merger negotiations with FCA. According to people familiar with the matter, at Nissan, borore is seen as a negative legacy of the ghorn era and an obstacle for the alliance to resolve its differences. His departure could also lay the foundation for Renault and Nissan to seek broader cooperation. Renault chairman sanard, in an interview with reporters, avoided talking about the deal with Fiat, saying there was no proposal at present. On the contrary, he thinks the decision to replace borore is reasonable because he needs to resume relations with Nissan. "The new life of the alliance needs new governance. Without the league, Renault has no future. "