 The Traditionalist faction abandoned any attempt to regain control over the organization and focused on struggle to retain influence in the ex-combatant Requeté hermandad, since 1965 headed by another Huguista, Ignacio Romero Osborne.With assistance of state security services the bid proved successful, but the entire ex-combatant movement, always prone to fragmentation, soon decomposed into total chaos.In 1971 Romero set up a competitive organisation based in France, while various other Hermandades pursued own political paths, usually centred around late Francoist structures and Don Juan Carlos; in 1972-1973 some of them acted as intended but failed centers of revitalized, anti-Huguista Carlist movement.