 However, the Republican soldier who found him decided not to report him and spared his life.After a few days he joined the Nationalist lines.As one of the "camisas viejas" (literally "old shirts", referring to Falangists from before the Civil War), Sánchez Mazas was appointed to Franco's cabinet of August 8, 1939, as a minister without portfolio and vice-president of the Junta Política.