"To understand Repsol’s presence in the White House," writes Marc López Plana, editor and director of 'Agenda Pública', "it must be recognized that Josu Jon Imaz is not seeking to validate an autocratic system for pleasure, but to operate within it, to prevent his shareholders and the company’s workers and investments from losing out in the transition to a new order." He argues that, "If we are unable to build a kind of governance that can compete with the extractive efficiency of neoroyalism, we will be reduced to moralistic spectators in a world that no longer listens to us.