page_title: Juan Sáenz-Díez García
section_title: Second Restoration: leader (after 1975)
hierarchical_section_title: Juan Sáenz-Díez García / Second Restoration: leader (after 1975)
caption_attribution_description: Français&#160;: Le prince Sixte-Henri de Bourbon-Parme, à Paris en 2014
context_page_description: Juan Sáenz-Díez García was a Spanish entrepreneur and Carlist politician. In business he is known among key managers of the Simeón García family conglomerate. In politics he counted among architects of cautiously collaborative course during mid-Francoism and leader of a Traditionalist organization Comunión Tradicionalista, active during the transición period. He is also recognized as owner of an iconic Galician daily El Correo Gallego.
context_section_description: In 1975 Sáenz-Diez joined Hermandad Nacional de Antiguos Combatientes de Requetés, a stepping stone towards a new political structure; he entered its Junta Directiva and became a treasurer. Later that year the organization neared the younger son of Don Javier – who already abdicated in favor of Don Carlos Hugo - Don Sixto, who confirmed allegiance to traditional Carlist values. Falling short from claiming the throne or the regency, he declared himself a standard-bearer of Carlism; in December 1975 he nominated Sáenz-Díez his Jefe Delegado and entrusted him with reorganization of semi-legal Comunión Tradicionalista.
  During Transición Sáenz-Díez's Madrid house turned into headquarters of Traditionalism. One of his first initiatives was re-claiming the Montejurra gathering, controlled by the Progressists. In early 1976 he mobilized supporters to ensure highest attendance and co-financed logistics of the Sixtinos; during the very day he was also present at the place. The event, from the onset planned as a confrontation, resulted in 2 Progressists shot. The press communiqué released by Comunión lamented the deaths and claimed not to know where the gunshots had come from, denying that anyone accompanying Don Sixto had fired them. In a second and more detailed press comuniqué, Sixtinos claimed success, consisting of preventing a Marxist meeting and profanation of sacred Carlist site with separatist and subversive plot.
  In 1977 Comunión Tradicionalista was registered as a party; with Zamanillo, Oriol and Márquez de Prado, Sáenz-Díez was among its founders. He tried to win over the senile Don Javier; a press communiqué issued from Paris stated that in front of a notary and in presence of Sáenz-Díez and others, the former Carlist king disowned Don Carlos Hugo and his political line. However, he failed to rally all Traditionalists behind his banner: despite a note of understanding signed in 1978 with RENACE, the latter formed Unión Carlista; those not adhering to any dynastical allegiance formed Comunión Católico-Monárquica.
  In the late 1970s Sáenz-Díez presided over anti-democratic stand of the Traditionalists and their rapprochement with other far-Right organizations. Prior to the 1979 elections the Sixtinos allied with Fuerza Nueva and Falange to create Unión Nacional, a grouping which gained one seat and disintegrated shortly. In conjunction with other groupings Comunión was still able to rally mass crowds; during the 1980 gathering at the Madrid Plaza de Oriente, organized by Confederación Nacional de Combatientes, at least 300,000 people demonstrated "Por la unidad de España y la esperanza en su futuro"; Sáenz-Díez – usually maintaining low profile and keen to avoid front-row appearances – was the first one to speak.
  There is no information on political activity of Sáenz-Díez in the 1980s. It is known that in the early years of the decade Comunión animated Comisión Promotora de la Unidad with the aim of uniting all Traditionalist grouplets. This eventually resulted in the 1986 Congreso para la Unidad Carlista, an event which united existing organizations in Comunión Tradicionalista Carlista. Sáenz-Díez did not enter the party executive and there are different unconfirmed accounts on his stance, especially given CTC admits allegiance neither to any claimant nor to any dynasty.
caption: Don Sixto (later pic)
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