page_title: José Sánchez Marco
section_title: Ex-deputy and quasi-deputy (1917-1931)
hierarchical_section_title: José Sánchez Marco / Ex-deputy and quasi-deputy (1917-1931)
caption_attribution_description: Español: Tafalla - placeta de las pulgas
context_page_description: José Benigno Sánchez Marco was a Spanish Traditionalist politician, associated mostly with a branch known as Integrism and operating as Partido Católico Nacional, though active also within the mainstream Carlism. He is recognized as one of the longest-serving Integrist deputies to the Cortes, his 4 consecutive terms lasting between 1905 and 1916. He also presided over a number of Navarrese Catholic and landowners’ organizations.
context_section_description: Sánchez Marco was always keen to maintain good relations with the Carlists. Though some grumbled about their patronizing stance, he was aware that the mandate very much depended on their support. He was also the first one who fell victim of their changed strategy, as during late Restauración the party adopted a pivotal stance concluding electoral deals with many parties at the expense of the Integros. In 1916 Sánchez Marco was not offered a place on the alliance list and ran stand-alone in Pamplona against a Jaimista-Romanonista-Maurista block, suffering defeat. In 1918 he intended to stand from Pamplona, but following unsuccessful haggling with the Maurists over a seat in the Senate he eventually withdrew. In 1919 he decided not to compete, while in 1920 he agreed to represent a committee of landholders as an agrarian candidate in Tafalla, losing again. No source mentions him as running in the last electoral campaign of the Restoration in 1923.
  Sánchez Marco's relations with Integrism became somewhat loose; though some scholars refer to him as Jefe Provincial del Integrismo, at that time he was merely an honorary president of the Integrist Navarrese Junta. In 1921 he became a delegate of Dirección General de Agricultura, Minas y Montes in Navarre and continued at this position until the late-1920s, taking up jobs also in commercial companies. In the late 1920s he moved into a new house, designed by a noted Pamplona architect Víctor Eusa, and set in his Dehesa de San Juan estate near Milagro.
  The 1923 advent of the Primo de Rivera dictatorship was greeted ambiguously by the Integrists, who welcomed doing away with rotten democracy but abhorred declaration of loyalty to the 1876 constitution, considered original sin of the Restoration system. Sánchez Marco was among those who tended to park their skepticism and in 1924 co-signed the founding manifesto of Unión Patriótica de Navarra. The document listed 3 pillars of their outlook: traditional values including religion, indivisible but regionalist state based on an organic constitution and enhancement of Navarrese identity in line with its foral rights. Access to primederiverista structures did not prevent his further engagement in Integrist initiatives, though he excelled rather in Catholic activities.
  In 1927 Sánchez Marco was appointed as "destacado lider" to the primoderiverista quasi-parliament, Asamblea Nacional Consultiva, nominated member of the pool reserved for Representantes de Actividades de Vida Nacional. He signed up to seccion segunda of the Assembly, a committee dealing mostly with foreign policy, and indeed remained active within its ranks; very much like in the Restoration parliament, he also kept protesting invasion of indecency in public life. However, he was getting increasingly unhappy about a constitution draft, discussed in 1929; Sánchez Marco was particularly upset about its Article 11, invoking religious freedom and considered carbon copy from the despised 1876 constitution. Instead, he thought the moment a good opportunity to launch "política de bien, mejor", which all Catholics would support and defend.
caption: Tafalla
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