Provoking, Ignoring, and Exacerbating Opposition Sample Clauses

Provoking, Ignoring, and Exacerbating Opposition. Regardless of the merits of the agreement, a concession agreement will invariably engender some local opposition from three different groups: political and business groups that have a vested interest in the agreement’s failure; citizens who are hesitant about the agreement on ideological or nationalist grounds; and people who have become dependent on the state-run system. However, the extralegislative, insular method by which concessionaires and government officials create concession agreements provokes, ignores, and aggravates each of these sources of opposition. This opposition threatens the agreements’ stability and success. First, concession agreements naturally engender opposition from groups that have a political or financial interest in the agreements’ collapse. Opposition political parties want the agreements to fail because they will 69. See, e.g., Xxxxxxxx, supra note 5; see also Guasch et al., supra note 4 (discussing this phenomenon throughout Latin America).