contrapoder

Spanish

Noun

contrapoder m (plural contrapoderes)

an anti-establishment movement; a rebellion
- 2016 November 6, “Así son los ministros de España: funcionarios, abogados y madrileños”, in El País‎:
  A los altos funcionarios les cuesta ser un contrapoder para el ministro.
  (please add an English translation of this quotation)

Further reading

“contrapoder”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014

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