 There are no membership numbers available, though the organization played little role in the Carlist machinery; when in the mid-1950s the party abandoned its opposition strategy and replaced it with cautious collaboration with the regime, Requeté was not involved and remained on the sidelines of the decision-making process.Zamanillo as Delegado Nacional de Requeté kept representing the organization in Secretaría Nacional and regional jefés operated locally, but it is not clear how much the network was still rooted in the ground.Visible revitalisation of Carlism, related to the 1957 appearance of Don Carlos Hugo and his team, affected Requeté little; the focus was rather on AET.