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Since single-party rule was enforced in Francoist Spain, the only way of pluralism consisted in internal " families " ( Familias del Regimen, i. e., different groups of pressure ) competing together inside the National Movement.

These included the Catholic " family " ( which brought the Roman Catholic Church's support and the national Catholicism ideology ), the monarchist " family " ( or conservative right, composed of many former members of the Spanish Confederation of the Autonomous Right ), the traditionalist " family " ( issued from Carlism ), the military tendency ( figures close to Franco himself, including the so-called africanistas ) and the Azules themselves or national syndicalists, who controlled the bureaucracy of the so-called Movement: Falange, Sindicato and many others organizations, such as the veterans ' national grouping ( Agrupación Nacional de Excombatientes ), the women's section ( Sección Femenina ), etc.