want to promulgate it. The great power that Solís held – single party, unions, "movement" press and radio – earned him the suspicions of many leaders in the regime. During these years, his work at the forefront of the single party was not without criticism from the most extreme sectors of Francoism, which accused Solís of keeping the party in a state of "total abandonment". He was also highly criticized for his management of the "movement" press, the set of newspapers and publications controlled by the regime. The “old guard” José Antonio Girón de Velasco came to say that Solís used the newspaper Pueblo, which in theory was the newspaper of the labour trade unions, as a means of communication in his personal service. However, Solís's main enemy among the Francoist hierarchy was Vice President Carrero Blanco. During the second half of the 1960s, Solís fought to expand the political and economic competencies of the trade union organization. He also tried to promote the expansion of rights among the employees within enterprises,not within unions, an idea was viscerally rejected by entrepreneurs and some sectors of the government (particularly by Carrero Blanco). The matter of Franco's succession was another issue. With the appointment of Juan Carlos de Borbón as Franco's successor,Solis led a faction of the nationalist movement that preferred a dictator to a regency with no expiration date . Those in favor of regency, led by José Solís, intended to delay the return of the monarchy, but did not achieve its objective. In October 1969, he was ousted from office. His downfall occurred in the context of the "Matesa scandal". In a movement that sought to discredit the technocrats of Opus Dei, the "movement"’s press (with the support of Ministers Manuel Fraga and José Solís) made a case of corruption, involving a businessman related to the Catholic institution, public. After the outbreak of the scandal there was a change of government. Paradoxically, Solís and Fraga were among the ministers who were fired. Opus Dei were reinforced by accepting the frank demands of Carrero Blanco in favour of a "united government without wear", which led to the so-called "one-party government". According to Bartolomé Bennassar, Solís was taken aback by his dismissal, as he believed he would have Franco's reassurances that he would remain in the cabinet. After this event, the importance of the Spanish trade union organization within the Government was