Pertinently, the dissenting officials formulated their protestations mostly in Spanish, which like Portuguese boasts barely one word, “política,” to denominate concurrently politics and policy. Other Continental European languages likewise feature a single term for the twosome: exempli gratia, “politique” in French, “Politik” in German. Therefore, a speaker of any of these tongues would readily associate the two concepts. Furthermore, she would spontaneously picture the politicization of entitlements as their actualization through a series of concrete policies.