Edited sentence: It has been described by some as clerical fascist, especially after the decline in influence of the more secular Falange beginning in the mid-1940s and before the strong economic development, the Spanish miracle, of the 1960s.The government of General Francisco Franco in Francoist Spain had Nacionalcatolicismo as part of its ideology.the National Union in Portugal led by Prime Ministers António de Oliveira Salazar and Marcelo Caetano