If the state challenges succeed, even partially, they could throw serious questions over the role of federal regulators and massively complicate their relationship with the pharmaceutical industry.

As a consequence, he gave the provincial assembly a significant degree of autonomy, which, once established, complicated the relationship the assembly had with later governors.

Despite his ideological distance from the mainstream opposition movements, the new political climate further complicated his relationship with the authorities, who refused him a passport for some time.

Living there only complicates the relationship.