Mr Rajoy rejected opposition calls for his resignation.
But the opposition calls it a scheme to increase Mr Chávez's power.
More recently, however, the government has broadened a policy the opposition calls "antiquisation".
These days the opposition calls that "putting the sugar back on the table".
The opposition calls vainly for foreign military intervention as in Libya, but this is not likely to happen.
The opposition calls this "majoritarianism" and argues that democracy creates an obligation for the government to consult the minority, not a license to trample it.
El Comercio, Peru's establishment newspaper, echoed opposition calls for the sacking of Yehude Simon, the prime minister, and of the interior minister for bungling the dispute.
Ilham and his well-groomed wife and daughters stage-manage a system that Murad Gassanly, a member of Azerbaijan's small, beleaguered opposition, calls "consumer authoritarianism".
Adam Smith, an aide to the minister resigned over the accusation, but Mr. Hunt himself has resisted opposition calls in Parliament for his ouster.
Rejecting opposition calls for his resignation, he said a government crisis "would be madness" when Italy needed to focus on growth.
When I asked about the concession, he said, "The opposition calls it a surrendering of national sovereignty, but investors need security for their investment.
