as a representative to the Cortes Españolas, a position he held for almost all the years of the dictatorship until December 1975. During 1946, as part of his job as the Vice-secretary General of Social Ordinance, he organised the first Trade Union elections and also the first National Congress of Workers. Later he served as Civil Governor of the provinces of Pontevedra and Guipúzcoa. In 1951, he was appointed national Trade Union representative, replacing Fermín Sanz-Orrio, who has resigned after the Barcelona tram strike of the same year. A jovial, polite and easy-going person, Solís soon became one of the most popular leaders of the regime and would become known as the "smile of the regime". During the following years he maintained a great presence in Spanish public and political life. It should be taken into account that his time as national trade union representative also coincided with the Spanish economic boom of the 1960s, known as the Spanish miracle. Under Solís, the labor institutions achieved maximum impact; he contributed to both expanding and modernizing them.The union work "Educacion y Descanso" (EyD) became one of the most popular instruments of trade unions among the working class, owing either to its network of recreational facilities or to its wide range of cultural activities. Before the rise of the "technocrats" within the government and the administration, the Falange Española party were "entrenched" in the Trade Union Organization, promoting a kind of "openness" from the organization towards workers until this advocacy group became the core of Francoism. For example, after 1954 it was no longer necessary to possess a FET y de las JONS card to be able to participate in the trade union elections and even was even an attempt from the Francoist apparatus to attract former anarcho-syndicalist leaders to its core/bosom. Through this openness, Solís also sought to obtain the approval of the International Labour Organization (ILO). This process culminated in the 1966 union elections of "liaisons" and "jurors" who enjoyed relative freedom. But these elections did not reinforce the nationalist position, but quite the opposite, as Left-wing opposition were elected to many of the posts through the clandestine movement of the "workers’ commissions". By 1967–1968, the liberalizing experiment could not be terminated. In fact Solís had no objection to supporting the repression of the workers’ commissions during the state of emergency period decreed in 1968. Secretary General of the Movement