On the internal front Zavala was almost fully in control; entirely supported by Carlos Hugo, he enlarged his internal team with a group of 20-year-olds like Carlos Carnicero or José Manuel Sabater,Rodón Guinjoan 2015, p. 490 but also with 50-year-olds like Mariano Zufía.he also entered the newly formed Gabinete Ideológico, Caspistegui Gorasurreta 1997, p. 204 Traditionalist opposition in the party was reduced to a relatively small group of older veterans, some of them quite prestigious; trapped between bewilderment and fatigue they sort of complied but eventually resolved to campaign of open letters, intended to bypass Zavala and address the Borbón-Parmas. Ignored, most of them withdrew in 1974–1975.the orthodoxes denounced Zavala-endorsed terminology of permanent social revolution, class struggle and a party system; they underlined that there was no Carlism which was socialist, antireligious or opposed to the spirit of 18 July, Caspistegui Gorasurreta 1997, pp. 216–217, also Rodón Guinjoan 2015, pp. 586–589, also Ramón Rodón Guinjoan, Una aproximación al estudio de la Hermandad Nacional Monárquica del Maestrazgo y del Partido Social Regionalista, [in:] Aportes 88 (2015), p. 185 In rare cases of a rally going off track, like during the 1974 Montejurra, he intervened personally.during the Montejurra rally of 1974 José María Codón Fernández started speaking about the need to seek understanding with the army; Zavala immediately snatched the microphone away from him, MacClancy 2000, p. 149 Zavala claimed that the young, reinvigorated party was attracting new militants, with new círculos opened across the country.Miralles Climent 2015, pp. 112–113 On the external front the strategy was to get visibility by seizing public posts, especially Cortes seats reserved for deputies elected in so-called tercio familiar. However, the strategy backfired as heavy-handed leadership and ideological zeal produced resignation of few party-aligned procuradores, like Auxilio Goñi and José Angel Zubiaur.Zubiaur and Goñi were asked to sign undated letters, declaring their resignation from the Cortes; they were intended as disciplinary measures in case both go off track. Both felt outraged and refused. Zavala tried to press them, ridiculed moral doubts of Zubiaur, and called his lawyer "cochina fascista", Zubiaur Alegre, Zubiaur Carreño 2012, pp. 161–163
