Philippe Varin, Chief Executive Officer of French carmaker PSA Peugeot Citroen, attends the company's First-Half 2013 results presentation in Parisis interviewing candidates to switch Chief Executive Philippe Varin, after Chinese accomplice Dongfeng mentioned a deeper alliance beneath negotiation will have to be accompanied with the aid of administration exchange, sources with data of the subject stated. Varin himself is major the hunt for a successor who has the caliber and experience to move a world carmaking alliance – traits that Dongfeng has emphasised when discussing a capital tie-up and accelerated industrial cooperation, in keeping with the 2 sources. After conversing at an business conference in Berlin on Saturday Varin declined to comment on a record in Le Figaro that the carmaker may just rent former Renault chief running officer Carlos Tavares as his new second-in-command. Peugeot and Dongfeng are in talks to build on their existing Chinese joint venture with cooperation in different markets and a multi-billion-euro share issue that will see Dongfeng and the French government acquire stakes within the French carmaker, sources familiar with the topic have stated.