 However, he seemed most committed to numerous associations of landholders, endangered by agrarian reform; appearing as president of Navarrese section of various nationwide Agrarian Assemblies he was member of Confederación Española Patronal Agricola, Unión de Federaciones Católico Agrarias Vasco-Navarras and Asociación de Terratenientes de Navarra.It is not clear whether Sánchez Marco contributed to or was even aware of the Carlist gear-up to the 1936 coup.Since its early hours the city of Pamplona has been easily captured by the rebels and became sort of a capital of a Carlist fiefdom.