Stellantis CEO Carlos Tavares abruptly announced his resignation on Sunday after leading the car giant for four years. Its board is already looking for his permanent replacement.

Carlos Tavares is stepping down as Chief Executive Officer of Stellantis, effective immediately, following a sharp decline in the carmaker’s sales. As the Wall Street Journal notes, in July, the company reported that its net profit for the first half of the year had dropped by 48 percent compared to 2023.

Carlos Tavares is out. The Stellantis CEO’s abrupt departure on Sunday arguably qualifies as a necessary evil, given the $34 billion carmaker’s painful 2024. But his successor will need to manage increasingly tricky relations with President-elect Donald Trump and the European Union,