 He was counted among intransigent followers of the official Carlist leader Manuel Fal Conde, so-called Falcondistas, though did not rise to top layers of the movement.During the first royal presentation of the claimant Don Javier in Barcelona in 1952 he was not listed among those attending, though certainly position of his father, at that time among those co-engineering launch of Don Javier's campaign, helped him enter Carlist ruling circles of the era.It seems that soon Larramendi's anti-Francoism exceeded that of Fal; in the mid-1950s he was considered member of "duros" or "guipúzcoanos", an internal faction grumbling at official party line as yielding versus Franco; others consider him member of the "intellectuals" faction, also opposed to the "integrist" group of Fal.